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Zoness posted:nekroz (the best deck about a year? ago) was not like this at all - the deck was very redundant in its tutoring engines which worked out of the hand and graveyard and played consistently regardless of opening hand. It's been a lot longer since I followed the game, Nekroz and Infernity weren't out. The most obvious stacking I remember was a staple 1-of called Trap Dustshoot, which let you shuffle a card from your opponent's hand back into their deck, but only if they still have at least 4 cards in hand, which in Yugioh they rarely would after a turn or two. Somehow pro players all found it in their opening hand about 50% of the time. (Apparently that particular card is now banned.)
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Count Bleck posted:Alternatively, Incinerate. Make it Annihilating Fire....3 CMC and it can exile what it kills.
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stinkles1112 posted:Hopefully we get a Lightning Strike or a Disintegrate in this set, it's about time for that card to come back.  (The secret is that disintegrate has always been a bad card  )
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Entropic posted:Meld looks like a terrible gimmick to me, but I thought the same thing about normal Double-Faced Cards during original Innistrad spoilers and I was wrong. Let's be fair: like 80% of mechanics are Kicker variants if you look at them closely enough. 
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Jun 27, 2016 19:43
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the vast majority of mechanics are either kicker or split cards and I'm not being facetious
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Jun 27, 2016 19:45
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Elyv posted:(The secret is that disintegrate has always been a bad card Oops I meant Incinerate. Basically a 3 damage 2 cmc instant of some kind
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Rinkles posted:That to me reads as bad design. I mean, as is, a really high percentage of casual players will never interact with the mechanic in actual play. It's a super Timmy mechanic that has all of the parts casuals will want to use as double-rares and they made the front sides of parts of both of those actually good so they're likely to be kind of expensive.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Disappointed they missed the opportunity to do trap cards in the end. A giant mousetrap would've been nice. 
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80s James Hetfield posted:Make it Annihilating Fire....3 CMC and it can exile what it kills. We already have whatever that not-Ghostfire is called from BFZ. And there's Draconic Roar. But apparently straight up Lightning Strike / Searing spear is too good for Standard these days, let alone Incinerate. Speaking of Incinerate, is it just me or are they really cutting back on Regeneration these days? There were like 3 cards total that Regenerate in BFZ block and zero so far in SOI.
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Jun 27, 2016 19:56
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Angry Grimace posted:Regular Art Thalia is cheesecake Thalia Fully clothed, Flat breastplate ladies with long hair are cheesecake now?
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Jun 27, 2016 19:58
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I don't think thalia leveled enough vitality for a dex/faith build that's using Tranquil Walk of Peace. She should really look into using Wrath of the Gods instead. That said I know my gimmick for my next dark souls 3 character now.
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Entropic posted:We already have whatever that not-Ghostfire is called from BFZ. And there's Draconic Roar. But apparently straight up Lightning Strike / Searing spear is too good for Standard these days, let alone Incinerate. I don't think it's about power, they're trying to rework the colors to some extent. The best card draw in standard is black, green has no rampant growth or llanowar elves, and cheap red burn can't hit players. Idk how white and black change in this though
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Jun 27, 2016 20:13
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Elyv posted:I don't think it's about power, they're trying to rework the colors to some extent. The best card draw in standard is black, green has no rampant growth or llanowar elves, and cheap red burn can't hit players. Idk how white and black change in this though White now has the best unconditional removal. And creatures. And Planeswalkers.
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Jun 27, 2016 20:28
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Rinkles posted:
but i thought thalia was right handed 
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Rinkles posted:
 Looks like poo poo got real, she's well armored and ready to go, only problem is that her old tabard/cloak/cape seems like a trip hazard.Zoness posted:but i thought thalia was right handed Guess that's why they flipped the art?
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Zoness posted:but i thought thalia was right handed Probably why they flipped the card art
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I was kinda hoping they'd have left it and then had an instant about not being left handed.
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Jun 27, 2016 20:38
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Zoness posted:I was kinda hoping they'd have left it and then had an instant about not being left handed. Emrakul's corruption made everyone sinister.
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THALIA: There's something I ought to tell you. EMRAKUL: Tell me. THALIA: I'm not left-handed, either.
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I'm stoked for meld. It may be very cool.
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Entropic posted:We already have whatever that not-Ghostfire is called from BFZ. And there's Draconic Roar. But apparently straight up Lightning Strike / Searing spear is too good for Standard these days, let alone Incinerate. Incinerate is too good but apparently a card that's 3/4ths Baneslayer in a format where the removal isn't even remotely comparable to BSA's time is A-OK. They could've at least bumped the toughness up to 4 to make it modern playable 
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Regenerate has a lot of weird baggage and I'm surprised it survived the Magic: Origins cull.
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Zoness posted:but i thought thalia was right handed Doesn't she have some kind of sword in both hands on the original?
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I'm stoked for meld. It may be very cool. I just have concerns about how well its going to be received, even as a casual-focused mechanic. If little Timmy opens Bruna, he's gonna say "hey what does Gisela do?!" and then find out its a $20 Mythic Rare, and even then, he has no idea what the reverse side does without looking it up because of the way the double-card is designed. That was partially why I initially had believed it might just have a single reverse side, or they'd have identical reverse sides and you just stacked them (the other reason being its ugly and takes up space). The only meld the average player is ever gonna pull off is Chittering Host.
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suicidesteve posted:Doesn't she have some kind of sword in both hands on the original? No that's a scabbard.
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suicidesteve posted:Doesn't she have some kind of sword in both hands on the original?  I have no idea what you're talking about! Why did they think this was acceptable art?
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Count Bleck posted:
It's a promo and their lacking-any-shits-to-give about promo art has been well established.
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when steve argyle posted this to his blog he had unironic praising comments sooooo I mean, it's not ~terrible~, I just don't like it.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Regenerate has a lot of weird baggage and I'm surprised it survived the Magic: Origins cull. I think they're just keeping it around until they find a better replacement for it, much like protection. They only sparingly use those keywords these days
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Whats with all the playable humans being female in this block?
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Uziduke posted:Whats with all the playable humans being female in this block? Tentacle porn
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Uziduke posted:Whats with all the playable humans being female in this block? Shut up.
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dragon enthusiast posted:Tentacle porn Makes total since now.
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is anyone disappointed that theres no jace / sorin meld
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Chill la Chill posted:No that's a scabbard. Ahh, that makes more sense. SoftNum posted:It's a promo and their lacking-any-shits-to-give about promo art has been well established. These look really nice in person. I thought about getting one for my cube but the original also looks really nice in foil so 
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TheKingofSprings posted:They could've at least bumped the toughness up to 4 to make it modern playable Then bumping the toughness up is half the problem of Standard today
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I really like meld as a mechanic. It's the best way to do the whole merge-creatures-together effect. It's very flavorful and looks like it's going to play well. But I just know the jumbo-sized top half of the card is going to look ridiculous. I also keep going back to this, but if I was in charge of printing meld, and the mechanic needed to be on some amount of rares, I'd only make one side (the side with the melding ability) rare and keep the other side uncommon at most*. That way it plays better in limited. As it is, the black common melded creature will be the one on the table in 95% of limited games, and that's going to taint the reception of it. I could see getting lucky and getting the Hanweir one. The red rare is probably a first pick, and the land seems like one of those middle-of-the-pack rares that I'll end up with eight of stuck in my binder. But yeah, mostly it's going to be a Chittering Host, and people are going to complain about only ever seeing that one. * Except for awesome flavorful things like Brisela which obviously can't happen at uncommon.
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Archenteron posted:Then bumping the toughness up is half the problem of Standard today I, for one, can't wait for the day when both players have a difficult to kill 9/10 fs vigilant lifelinking flier running into each other
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BJPaskoff posted:I really like meld as a mechanic. It's the best way to do the whole merge-creatures-together effect. It's very flavorful and looks like it's going to play well. But I just know the jumbo-sized top half of the card is going to look ridiculous. Ironically if I see you draft one I can easily hate pick the other, since they're dfcs 
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