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Eikre posted:Also, there are some correct art opinions in this topic imho. I took thirty seconds in paint.net to explore the common sentiment that Invocations should have been illustrated with Dynastic frescos, and honestly it could have been loving great.
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The color's painted on the "pillars" and the Bolas symbols on the sides. I found it the one thing that was easily readable in the frame. 
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quote:Idk anything about tcgs because I'm not a NERD
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Eikre posted:They should have written the card names and typelines like the Rosetta Stone. Use actual hieroglyphs to render the words phonetically, then write them in English using a psuedo-Demotic typeset, and then write it one more time translated into Koine Greek with half-sized print. The font is still garbage but this actually looks really good I'd be happy to play iMICRYPTICCOMMANB!?
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in case you missed any http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/masterpiece-series-amonkhet-invocations-2017-03-29
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also theres a story update but i dont want to read it so someone else can go through the no doubt brilliant writing it has in it
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mandatory lesbian posted:in case you missed any I like how they don't have labels under them.
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mandatory lesbian posted:in case you missed any i like how vindicate and pulse have the same art
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I like how there's only two red ones and no green ones. But 10 blue ones.
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STANKBALLS TASTYLEGS posted:i like how vindicate and pulse have the same art hey now they are very different, one of the gods is wearing blue, and the other is wearing white
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austere command and containment priest are also very similar, which i don't like
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Austere Command, Containment Priest, Divert, Spell Pierce, Stifle, Attrition, Diabolic Intent, Entomb, and Aggravated Assault are all new I think.
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Mar 29, 2017 16:02
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There are a lot of cards that I really enjoy playing with in the inventions... If no one wants them and they are super cheap I just might pick some up...
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There's containment priest too? It's like half of miracles has been made into inserts already. They should've done Terminus with the other sorceries.  Hellsau posted:....huh. I literally could picture a Sensei's Divining Top Invention in my head, but apparently I made that up. Did someone post a mockup of one in this thread? Yeah, I remember that too. It's probably the aesthetics of the EMA one in foil mixed with the inventions.
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Mar 29, 2017 16:20
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Good morning to everyone except the people who designed invocations.
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Okay, you know what - nevermind the godawful frame, unreadable text and overall bad design. Why is the art so goddamn bad on all of these? I mean look at them - they are poo poo! The Kaladesh inventions, aside from a few stinkers, actually all looked pretty good, and the Expeditions were actually pretty drat sweet, even with the stupid text box. But why do all of these look like this?
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They look like 90s and early 2000s special effects you'd expect from Stargate and the SG-1 TV series. We already said that was the theme weeks ago.
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Jenx posted:Okay, you know what - nevermind the godawful frame, unreadable text and overall bad design. A few are good. Mind Twist and Counterspell come to mind. The only really bad invention is Wurmcoil the attack slug.
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mandatory lesbian posted:also theres a story update but i dont want to read it so someone else can go through the no doubt brilliant writing it has in it  Warning: Actual quotes from Magic: the Gathering story ahead quote:What strange friends I've made. quote:Man, who woulda guessed Amonkhet would be nothing but a giant pit of wasteland and sand and sun? Wait, make that suns, there's two of them, what the heck, no wonder it's so hot. Well I mean hot in like a relative sense because Kaladesh had this stifling humidity thing happening sometimes and really everywhere isn't all that hot after the lava pits of Regatha, but yeesh everyone else looks like they're melting into watery rice pudding in this dry sandy heat. quote:Only Beefslab's reflexes saved Jace as the larger man turned and grabbed Jace's arm with one hand, keeping him from slipping under. quote:HOLY FIERY RIVERS OF REGATHA WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT THING AND DID IT JUST EAT LILIANA NO WAY WHAT THE HELL DIE IN A PILLAR OF FLAME YOU BIG FAT STUPID WAIT DID NISSA JUST SAY THERE WERE MORE COMING OH GEEZ YUP THERE THEY ARE GET OUT OF THE WAY I'LL ROAST YOU ALL GIVE BACK LILIANA YOU STUPID SONS OF INBRED BANDARS— quote:I watch as the wurm rears back and begins convulsing. I back away because when I see humans do this it usually is followed by projectile vomiting, and I do not want sand wurm vomit on me no thank you. Actual story summary: They land in the middle of the desert and it's poo poo. Chandra creates a little glass tunnel for them with fire and they try to scout magically and can't find anything, but then chandra looks out the window and sees giant Nicol Bolas horns and they decide to go that way. They get attacked by zombies and win, then get attacked by sand wurms and win, including Liliana getting swallowed by one and then death magicking her way out or something. Then the sand wurms turn into zombie sand wurms because amonkhet is a lovely plane to live on and they're about to kill either Lili or Nissa when female Anubis shows up to save the day. They keep walking towards the horns and find a city magically protected from the desert. Fin.
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Elyv posted:Chandra creates a little glass tunnel for them with fire it says something about me that this is what annoys me most here this is a very good way to die when the glass you didn't anneal shatters
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Lili's turn at narration being replaced with a picture of the wurm that ate her was a pretty good gag though.
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Jenx posted:Okay, you know what - nevermind the godawful frame, unreadable text and overall bad design. suicidesteve posted:A few are good. Mind Twist and Counterspell come to mind. I can imagine between the complications of a last minute rotation change, and still adjusting to the added commission work from Masterpieces, they were simply overwhelmed and corners were cut (and frames ended up like butt). Let's hope that doesn't extend to the game design.
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So the only foil or promo version of containment priest is the dumb Egypt one and there's still no fancy version of worldly tutor? Lame. Wurms returning owns though, Wurms are great.
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Reading the garbage story, it looks like they're going to try to justify not having any green Invocations by saying "well Amonkhet is a plane about death and decay and that isn't what green gets to do." Seriously, who loving signed off on the list and didn't at least throw in a single mono-green card?
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Sup guys, just gonna stand here holdin my bow. Yep, think I'll just continue doing that. 
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I think I'd like the Invocations better if they were actually unreadable and the rules text was replaced with pictures describing the effect of the card. That'd have been sweet.
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Attorney at Funk posted:I think I'd like the Invocations better if they were actually unreadable and the rules text was replaced with pictures describing the effect of the card. That'd have been sweet. That's a full art card and they do in fact rule.
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I hereby apologize for everything snarky I ever said about full-art Cryptic Command being dumb.
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The cards are already ugly as sin there's no need to post over quantized jpegs. You're a media company have you not heard of png files???
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:The cards are already ugly as sin there's no need to post over quantized jpegs. You're a media company have you not heard of png files??? They don't want hi quality scans for counterfeiters! 
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:The cards are already ugly as sin there's no need to post over quantized jpegs. You're a media company have you not heard of png files??? i have some bad news, they are .pngs, which means the low quality is intentional
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clamiam45 posted:That's a full art card and they do in fact rule. A full-art card is just a regular magic art that takes up the whole card. I mean like, an Invocation Cryptic Command would be like four lines of hieroglyphs, one depicting each of the card's four modes, prefaced by another symbol or something that means 'choose any two'. They'd essentially be full-textbox cards but the text would be pictograms
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Forget full art cards, i want No Art Cards.
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Snacksmaniac posted:Forget full art cards, i want No Art Cards. We're most of the way there.
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Chutch posted:If I was to purchase one of the premade commander decks, which would be the strongest ones in terms of out-of-the-box? You've got it right, those are powerful. Massdrop has all five 2015 decks up for about $115 if you're in the US. https://www.massdrop.com/buy/commander-2015-5-pack-presale
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Snacksmaniac posted:Forget full art cards, i want No Art Cards. Don't worry, Amonkhet has that covered too
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Wow this magic story:quote:Liliana leads the way, and the rest join her, and soon we're all standing inside, looking out at the blur of sand and dust creating a constant sound like a thousand mothers shushing their children at some kind of weird place where there'd be a thousand mothers and their children gathered, only the thousand mothers is just tens of thousands of grains of sand washing over our little dome in this crazy storm.
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I went to a court hearing today and the judge agreed with my argument. Afterwards, opposing counsel waited for me in the hall to tell me I was wrong (even though the judge explicitly said I wasn't) and to tell me she thought I sucked. Apparently those salty people on MTGO who tell you that you suck when they lose exist in real life.
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