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Entropic posted:The red angel seems kind of bad to me. 4 power haste with evasion for 4 mana is very good, but the downside is huge. it doesn't have a downside if the opponent's dead
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A cool sequence will be playing Castigator and serving, followed by your opponent playing their copy on the next turn and bashing your head in.
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Mar 22, 2016 17:40
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It lets decks that normally couldn't race you race you though. If you're playing a burn deck and at 12 life from fetching shocks and whatever incidental damaged they've pushed through, normally you'd feel pretty safe, but you slam this to try to finish them off and suddenly their bolt-snapcaster-bolt is lethal for you. Hell, if you have no blockers that's lethal from 16 life. Double damage on everything adds up way quicker than you might think.
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Mar 22, 2016 17:40
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It seems incredibly meta dependent. If you're facing ramp, control, or slower mid-range, this could be an incredible finisher for a fast red deck. In a red mirror it's possibly the worst thing you could play.
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Mar 22, 2016 17:46
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The answer, as always, is fog
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Mar 22, 2016 17:49
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Entropic posted:The red angel seems kind of bad to me. 4 power haste with evasion for 4 mana is very good, but the downside is huge. The downside is only bad vs a very narrow band of decks.
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Mar 22, 2016 17:55
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4 Power with flying is very strong for 4 mana without considering anything else. It has haste and a downside that an aggressive deck doesnt care about, and is relatively difficult to block despite its downside. Its bad against fog but who cares.
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Mar 22, 2016 17:58
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Do we even have a good Fog with Winds of Qal Sisma gone? Maybe we'll get a Moonmist reprint.  mcmagic posted:The downside is only bad vs a very narrow band of decks. Ones that can deal damage from multiple sources in a turn?
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Mar 22, 2016 18:01
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I love SaffronOlive, but lmao
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Mar 22, 2016 18:10
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Red angel seems dangerously bad in modern.
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Mar 22, 2016 18:12
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Entropic posted:It lets decks that normally couldn't race you race you though. If you're playing a burn deck and at 12 life from fetching shocks and whatever incidental damaged they've pushed through, normally you'd feel pretty safe, but you slam this to try to finish them off and suddenly their bolt-snapcaster-bolt is lethal for you. that won't happen in standard or draft, the formats it will be played in
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Mar 22, 2016 18:16
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Pretty sure a 4/X flying haste for RR2 without any downsides would be fringe playable at best in Modern.
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Mar 22, 2016 18:19
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I like negator-like cards but I feel like midrange creatures are too good for suicide aggro cards to thrive any more.
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Mar 22, 2016 18:35
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I'm hell of excited because Jeff Menges, the artist behind the original Swords to Plowshares, Moat, Bazaar of Baghdad, Aspect of Wolf, and Sea Serpent (among others) painted a Wolf token for my Cat Draft. The Cat Draft is a charity event benefiting the cat adoption center where I volunteer. Last year we raised almost a thousand dollars, and all of that money went towards supplies and medical check-ups for the cats. PM me if you want details on the event; it's in Long Island, New York and I don't know how many Magic-playing goons are in that general area. I can't wait to get these things printed.
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Mar 22, 2016 18:38
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BJPaskoff posted:I'm hell of excited because Jeff Menges, the artist behind the original Swords to Plowshares, Moat, Bazaar of Baghdad, Aspect of Wolf, and Sea Serpent (among others) painted a Wolf token for my Cat Draft. The Cat Draft is a charity event benefiting the cat adoption center where I volunteer. Last year we raised almost a thousand dollars, and all of that money went towards supplies and medical check-ups for the cats. PM me if you want details on the event; it's in Long Island, New York and I don't know how many Magic-playing goons are in that general area. I can't wait to get these things printed. Where on Long Island are you?
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Mar 22, 2016 18:42
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Entropic posted:Do we even have a good Fog with Winds of Qal Sisma gone? Maybe we'll get a Moonmist reprint. That white one with Awaken is the best we have. That's not a praise of Encircling Fissure. RIP Thing In The TurboFog.
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Mar 22, 2016 18:49
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mandatory lesbian posted:that won't happen in standard or draft, the formats it will be played in That exact scenario won't happen in limited, but its downside is going to be pretty big draft/sealed where you're likely to be facing a gummed up board, outside of some very specific and well-honed deck configurations. edit: its also a mythic so i guess who cares
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Elyv posted:here's the clue tokens and emblems btw That symbol is pretty tentacley, know who else has tentacles??? 
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Mar 22, 2016 19:18
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Bread Set Jettison posted:That symbol is pretty tentacley, know who else has tentacles???  
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Mar 22, 2016 19:21
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BJPaskoff posted:I'm hell of excited because Jeff Menges, the artist behind the original Swords to Plowshares, Moat, Bazaar of Baghdad, Aspect of Wolf, and Sea Serpent (among others) painted a Wolf token for my Cat Draft. The Cat Draft is a charity event benefiting the cat adoption center where I volunteer. Last year we raised almost a thousand dollars, and all of that money went towards supplies and medical check-ups for the cats. PM me if you want details on the event; it's in Long Island, New York and I don't know how many Magic-playing goons are in that general area. I can't wait to get these things printed. You should contact Ms. Longmore about that, I think she'd be interested 
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Mar 22, 2016 19:21
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Pretty sure a 4/X flying haste for RR2 without any downsides would be fringe playable at best in Modern. You'd be right.  Trading "dies to dismember" for "you yourself now die to a ton of stuff" seems like a bad deal most of the time.
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Mar 22, 2016 19:34
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Tom Ross is going to win a game on camera by drawing and playing his single copy
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Mar 22, 2016 19:36
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Entropic posted:You'd be right. This set actually provides a lot of stuff for Falkenrath Aristocrat, I look forward to experimenting with them. Going to take a crack at incorporating the Militia Captain and the Abbey into a new brew in modern. Also if Falkenrath Aristocrat dies to dismember, you've just not fed her enough.
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Mar 22, 2016 19:57
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"Can it survive bolt" is a pretty relevant concern in modern, although Castigator may cause you to fail that test
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Mar 22, 2016 20:10
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The bigger problem with Castigator in Modern is that no deck exists that wants it. It'll probably get played in Standard in some kind of 24-land aggro deck like the Hellrider aggro from last Innistrad.
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Mar 22, 2016 20:55
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 from Maro's twitter
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Mar 22, 2016 21:09
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I want to see someone get greedy and run out of two Castigators in a row.
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BJPaskoff posted:I'm hell of excited because Jeff Menges, the artist behind the original Swords to Plowshares, Moat, Bazaar of Baghdad, Aspect of Wolf, and Sea Serpent (among others) painted a Wolf token for my Cat Draft. The Cat Draft is a charity event benefiting the cat adoption center where I volunteer. Last year we raised almost a thousand dollars, and all of that money went towards supplies and medical check-ups for the cats. PM me if you want details on the event; it's in Long Island, New York and I don't know how many Magic-playing goons are in that general area. I can't wait to get these things printed. This is cool and I'd go if I was anywhere in NY/NJ and not the southern end of the country. For the future (if you can get an artist/artists to do another token for this). Some actual cat tokens:
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Mar 22, 2016 21:10
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Dungeon Ecology posted:
Shoulda been "Howling Anthem"
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Mar 22, 2016 21:10
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Cool that they gave it flash. I'm a bit confused about the wording though, why doesn't it use the normal lord templating?
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Entropic posted:I want to see someone get greedy and run out of two Castigators in a row. A shame you can't combo that with deflecting palm
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Dungeon Ecology posted:
I like the art on this
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Cool that they gave it flash. I'm a bit confused about the wording though, why doesn't it use the normal lord templating? Because it's an enchantment...
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Cool that they gave it flash. I'm a bit confused about the wording though, why doesn't it use the normal lord templating? So it can boost both Wolfir and Werewolves without giving a creature that is both a wolf and a werewolf +2/+2
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Dungeon Ecology posted:
Avacyn went crazy because her neighbor's dog won't shut the gently caress up it's like five in the morning goddamn
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not sure if I should post this here or in the Brewhaus but I'm thinking BW control will be good. I haven't played standard or paid attention to Magic pretty much at all since like Theros though. What cards that aren't rotating out will be good in that shell? I like Ayli but I don't think the token gen/other creatures will be there to make her work effectively. I'm thinking Dead Weight, Anguished Unmaking, Sinister Concotion, To the Slaughter, and Declaration in Stone are all 4 ofs, with probably a couple Expose Evil as well. That's a pretty solid removal base for a control deck, but INN seems to be really lacking in card draw. Probably Ob Nixilis/new Sorin as card draw/finishers? I'm also not sure what creatures would work. What are some playable cards from the last block that would slot into a deck like this? I'm also not convinced that I don't want to go Esper (reflector mage, thing in the ice, card draw) but that seems highly greedy with the manabases being what they are.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Cool that they gave it flash. I'm a bit confused about the wording though, why doesn't it use the normal lord templating? That is the normal templating for lords that boost multiple creature types, to remove ambiguity for creatures that have both
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I think it's more of a question of: Why it's Each creature you control that's a Wolf or Werewolf gets +1/+1 and has trample Vs. Wolf and Werewolf creatures you control get +1/+1 and have trample
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OfChristandMen posted:I think it's more of a question of: It is clearer to the reader in version 1 that each creature is at max getting +1/+1. Either reading should work, but i am fairly certain it is for clarity's sake.
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Rip_Van_Winkle posted:Avacyn went crazy because her neighbor's dog won't shut the gently caress up They never thought about the repercussions of taking down Big Window. 
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