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BJPaskoff posted:The only rumor I heard about the next block is from a source on 4chan which was posted on MTGSalvation, so take this with half a grain of lovely sand. They said the next block would have an ancient Egyptian theme and be standalone plot-wise, and the block after that would be another Ravnica block. People have been asking for an ancient Egypt set for a long time. If Emrakul is going to wreak havoc on Innistrad in Eldritch Moon, it would make sense to do a set whose plot is detached from the main story branch; the reason being people are already upset about Emrakul on Innistrad for no loving reason. They go "It's stupid, we just had an Eldrazi set, they're running out of ideas," when in my opinion it's a great idea to tie blocks together instead of planeswalkers and some synergistic game mechanics being the only chain between them. It really just sounds like a 4channer making poo poo up, especially since the argument takes it for granted Emrakul showing up in EDM is going to upset people. Also, if they were worried about fan backlash over Emrakul enough to decide the next block after SoI (and if they could somehow accurately poll this during Tarkir block, which is when exploratory design of the next block would have started), they would rewrite Emrakul out of Innistrad on the first place.
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Uncharted Realms this week is just a series of letters between Gisa and Geralt that read a lot like:quote:Gisa, The only relevant plot detail as far as I can tell is that Nahiri and Gisa are working together now; Gisa is basically an airhead so Nahiri convinced her they were buddies and to raise an army of zombies (which Jace thought were being ordered by Liliana) to build a "monument" in Nephalia (the place Jace went when he was loving crazy). Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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GimmickMan posted:It really just sounds like a 4channer making poo poo up, especially since the argument takes it for granted Emrakul showing up in EDM is going to upset people. Also, if they were worried about fan backlash over Emrakul enough to decide the next block after SoI (and if they could somehow accurately poll this during Tarkir block, which is when exploratory design of the next block would have started), they would rewrite Emrakul out of Innistrad on the first place. Yeah seems pretty fake, and I'd say I trust the people saying Kaladesh is next (via WPN again)
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Angry Grimace posted:Uncharted Realms this week is just a series of letters between Gisa and Geralt that read a lot like: Guess I expected Innistradians to speak a bit more... old-fashionedly?
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GimmickMan posted:It really just sounds like a 4channer making poo poo up, especially since the argument takes it for granted Emrakul showing up in EDM is going to upset people. Also, if they were worried about fan backlash over Emrakul enough to decide the next block after SoI (and if they could somehow accurately poll this during Tarkir block, which is when exploratory design of the next block would have started), they would rewrite Emrakul out of Innistrad on the first place. Steve Aoki featuring Emrakul - A Light That Never Comes
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Gisa was always kind of an airhead though. http://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/loreweaving-gisa-and-geralf-the-unauthorized-biography
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Dunno why they can't just print Ghoulcaller Gisa and Stitcher Geralf in the set. Also, its impossible to not type that loving guy's name as Geralt.
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Innistrad should just hire Geralt. He'd fix the monster problem
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pakman posted:Innistrad should just hire Geralt. He'd fix the monster problem Ciri is literally a Planeswalker, she could do it.
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pakman posted:Innistrad should just hire Geralt. He'd fix the monster problem Regis, the Higher Vampire Legendary creature BBB 5/5 indestructible. whenever Regis is dealt damage, exile it. Put X time counters on it. It gains suspend X, where X is the damage dealt to Regis. Im not sure how to template that but now I want a fan set of The Witcher cards. No, not Gwent. Lawnie fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Best Witcher cards, the first Witcher cards, heh...
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http://www.sbsun.com/events/20160424/meet-the-former-magic-the-gathering-champion-who-brought-his-lamborghini-to-coachella They should have done a documentary about this successful Magic Pro! Instead we got a movie about a microwave chicken-eating criminal and some mom's-basement-dwelling Rainman types! Sad!
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mandatory lesbian posted:Gisa the Valley Girl Necromancer is more of an original character then anyone else introduced in like, ever so i approve She wrote like that in the two story articles they wrote for DKA (those were good articles btw)
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just rust posted:http://www.sbsun.com/events/20160424/meet-the-former-magic-the-gathering-champion-who-brought-his-lamborghini-to-coachella SEO is really the perfect line of work for Mike Long to have gotten rich in.
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GimmickMan posted:It really just sounds like a 4channer making poo poo up, especially since the argument takes it for granted Emrakul showing up in EDM is going to upset people. Also, if they were worried about fan backlash over Emrakul enough to decide the next block after SoI (and if they could somehow accurately poll this during Tarkir block, which is when exploratory design of the next block would have started), they would rewrite Emrakul out of Innistrad on the first place. This is completely separate from anything involving 4chan, but everyone I've talked to thinks that Emrakul being the reason for Innistrad's denizens going insane is the dumbest thing ever. Like how dare Wizards continue their plotlines past a block, right? I don't get it.
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BJPaskoff posted:This is completely separate from anything involving 4chan, but everyone I've talked to thinks that Emrakul being the reason for Innistrad's denizens going insane is the dumbest thing ever. Like how dare Wizards continue their plotlines past a block, right? I don't get it. I mean "magic fans" also like jace as a character so
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BJPaskoff posted:This is completely separate from anything involving 4chan, but everyone I've talked to thinks that Emrakul being the reason for Innistrad's denizens going insane is the dumbest thing ever. Like how dare Wizards continue their plotlines past a block, right? I don't get it. I just don't want more eldrazi under 10 cmc for a while. Unless they're flip eldrazi.
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BJPaskoff posted:This is completely separate from anything involving 4chan, but everyone I've talked to thinks that Emrakul being the reason for Innistrad's denizens going insane is the dumbest thing ever. Like how dare Wizards continue their plotlines past a block, right? I don't get it. As long as destroying Emrakul at the end of the storyline results in Return to Time Spiral because reasons, I'm for it.
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BJPaskoff posted:This is completely separate from anything involving 4chan, but everyone I've talked to thinks that Emrakul being the reason for Innistrad's denizens going insane is the dumbest thing ever. Like how dare Wizards continue their plotlines past a block, right? I don't get it. It's because the entire point of the block paradigm is that the attitude and feeling of the sets change. When you go from Eldritch Horror -> Gothic Horror? -> Nah really its Eldritch Horror it hasn't really flipped the script. Like if this block had just been the fall block with whatever Kaladesh between them it would have been fine. Honestly I'd have liked to see Return to Zendikar -> Totally new world (not Origins related) -> SoI -> Whataver. As it is we're just getting the Jacetice League Home Plane Sets for 3 in a row, at least. None of this is to say the cards/mechanics/flavor of the sets isn't good, but the way they structured it was really awkward, and took away from Magic's "exploring the wide multiverse" feeling.
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Elyv posted:She wrote like that in the two story articles they wrote for DKA (those were good articles btw) that does not change my statement
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Skyl3lazer posted:It's because the entire point of the block paradigm is that the attitude and feeling of the sets change. When you go from Eldritch Horror -> Gothic Horror? -> Nah really its Eldritch Horror it hasn't really flipped the script. Like if this block had just been the fall block with whatever Kaladesh between them it would have been fine. Honestly I'd have liked to see Return to Zendikar -> Totally new world (not Origins related) -> SoI -> Whataver. BFZ wasn't really eldritch horror at all. If Emrakul's the answer to the SOI mystery, then going from BFZ to SOI is basically like going from Aliens to Alien.
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Attorney at Funk posted:BFZ wasn't really eldritch horror at all. If Emrakul's the answer to the SOI mystery, then going from BFZ to SOI is basically like going from Aliens to Alien. I mean it was presented as a poorly run D&D campaign instead of a Mystery Novel but the threads were the same. Oh no our world is corrupted, the eldrazi menace is threatening us all!
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Personally for me Emrakul showing up in Shadows over Innistrad feels more lazy than anything. Oh lets create this intrigue where Emrakul doesn't show up in BFZ and then literally in the next block they blow their load and can't hold off for even a single block. Just feels a bit rushed, I guess.
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Was Emrakul ever playable in RoE? In that version of standard could you even get close to 15 mana?
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It saw play in the monogreen ramp deck before everyone figured out that that deck was basically a worse version of Valakut.
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It was a sideboard card if anyone at your store was trying to play a mill deck  There were a variety of summoning trap decks
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The continuity isn't the problem, the pacing just feels incredibly off. They're resolving whatever happened to Baby Emrakul pretty fast.
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There was a deck that played it with Brilliant Ultimatum.
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black potus posted:The continuity isn't the problem, the pacing just feels incredibly off. They're resolving whatever happened to Baby Emrakul pretty fast. Wasn't BFZ supposed to be a 3 set block at first? That would explain why they're coming back so soon considering I'm sure the third BFZ set would have been about emrakul and they had designs done already
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Salvor_Hardin posted:There was a deck that played it with Brilliant Ultimatum. that deck was pretty sweet - although it was kind of hard keeping liliana alive for the extra turn to resolve the ultimatum since her -2 was the reliable setup for ultimatum'ing your emrakul
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:Wasn't BFZ supposed to be a 3 set block at first? That would explain why they're coming back so soon considering I'm sure the third BFZ set would have been about emrakul and they had designs done already Yes it was, and I am pretty sure that was the plan.
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GeneX posted:I just don't want more eldrazi under 10 cmc for a while. Unless they're flip eldrazi. Oh man what if they print a "The Moon" card and it transforms into Emrakul
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If Emrakul is the moon, what does that make the helvault? I'd be down with the third Zen block being a Soul Blazer rip off.
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stinkles1112 posted:Oh man what if they print a "The Moon" card and it transforms into Emrakul Moons over El drazi When this flips, assign each creature to a random player. Return all non-Tamiyo planeswalkers to their owners hands. Each player may put any number of Horror permanents onto the battlefield. <i>You're not leaving too? Lunatic.</i> logis fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:Wasn't BFZ supposed to be a 3 set block at first? That would explain why they're coming back so soon considering I'm sure the third BFZ set would have been about emrakul and they had designs done already Even if it wasn't, SoI as a 3 set block means that Emmy probably would have dropped in set 2 or 3, most of a year after BFZ.
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