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Chill la Chill posted:The Martians got taken out by our diseases. the martians weren't anywhere near as ineffable in thier biology as the eldrazi tho, this isn't anywhere near as bullshit as the mtg story
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poorlywrittennovel posted:Even if we don't get them this set, I think there's enough of a roster that it'll happen eventually. You already have Tezzeret, Garruk's been unaccounted for since M15, Nahiri is probably considered a villain now, and I guess you could probably justify that vedalken dude from Kaladesh being against the Jacetice League. Ob Nixilis probably isn't a fan either.
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Mar 30, 2017 16:11
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He shouldn't answer developmental questions. He's shown a few times in the past that he might not always know what he's talking about (like never using the legendary type for balance considerations).
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Mar 30, 2017 16:14
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I can't see how these two answers can't coexist. It's not like Kaladesh doesn't have any artifact hate, it's just not good enough to keep the Heart from beating.
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Mar 30, 2017 16:18
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DoctorOozy posted:I'd pay kidneys for one by Alan Moore I wouldn't rule out the possibility of Alan Moore trading writing for kidneys.
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Mar 30, 2017 16:20
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Rigel posted:I don't think we're going to be introduced to the brotherhood of evil planeswalkers. Bolas probably just wants an undead army of super-soldiers for the planar bridge. The trash outside the city is probably just people who did not survive the 5 trials. Zombie Eldrazi Titans would be the loving poo poo. Hire me Wizards, I'll turn the company around immediately
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Mar 30, 2017 16:22
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:This would be cool and interesting and possibly compelling (since it gives the good guys actual motivation to be fighting Bolas) if they didn't outsource the story writing to MFA rejects, so of course it won't happen.
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Mar 30, 2017 16:32
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Niton posted:If the writers had any chops, this would simply come back to bite them in a big way - burning the Eldrazi's physical forms just freed them to the multiverse, or something. They already set up for this being the case when Ugin came up to them while they were high-fiving each other and was like "you are all loving idiots."
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Siivola posted:I can't see how these two answers can't coexist. It's not like Kaladesh doesn't have any artifact hate, it's just not good enough to keep the Heart from beating. I think the thing that annoys me the most is he said that tormods crypt is too good for graveyard blocks. If he actually believes tormods is too good he shouldn't be designing anything.
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Siivola posted:I can't see how these two answers can't coexist. It's not like Kaladesh doesn't have any artifact hate, it's just not good enough to keep the Heart from beating. Decommission, Fragmentize, and Release the Gremlins are some pretty good removal, but they're not what Standard needs to deal with vehicles. It'd have to be something like Putrefy or Abrupt Decay, that's instant and can hit Heart whether its crewed or not, and also sink the guy trying to crew it. Anguished Unmaking's life payment makes it ill-suited for this purpose. Or something cheap and instant like Path to Exile or Dismember, that can nail Heart in declare blockers without you having to hold up a lot of mana. That's far stronger than removal has been in a long time, and there have been Standards just fine without this level of murder. Just so happens, they released a card type that turns a top-decked guy into a 4/4 flier that's swinging that turn.
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mandatory lesbian posted:the martians weren't anywhere near as ineffable in thier biology as the eldrazi tho, this isn't anywhere near as bullshit as the mtg story I thought the story was about hubris on the martians' part and that nature overcomes technology in the end. If the Eldrazi weren't man-made then yeah it doesn't make sense, but I thought they were? Or was that Phyrexians? In any case, the poster who mentioned Cthulhu getting run over by a boat is right.
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Eldrazi are the aliens from beyond time, Phyrexians are the Borg.Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Or something cheap and instant like Path to Exile or Dismember, that can nail Heart in declare blockers without you having to hold up a lot of mana.
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Siivola posted:Eldrazi are the aliens from beyond time, Phyrexians are the Borg. Too narrow.
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Chill la Chill posted:If the Eldrazi weren't man-made then yeah it doesn't make sense, but I thought they were? Or was that Phyrexians? That was the Phyrexians. Nobody made the Eldrazi, they've just sort of always been there. Chill la Chill posted:In any case, the poster who mentioned Cthulhu getting run over by a boat is right. Cthulhu's body regenerates from that wound in literally the same paragraph where the boat hits it.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:17
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who says that wotc doesn't print strong answers? evolving wilds' long reign of terror is finally over
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Chill la Chill posted:I thought the story was about hubris on the martians' part and that nature overcomes technology in the end. If the Eldrazi weren't man-made then yeah it doesn't make sense, but I thought they were? Or was that Phyrexians? In any case, the poster who mentioned Cthulhu getting run over by a boat is right. oh i just meant wells went out of his way to say that the biology of the martians was close to ours so the virus thing would work the eldrazi being hit with a boat would have honestly been a better ending
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Huh. Like the art better than the other ones actually.
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Mar 30, 2017 17:22
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Haha, I knew it.
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Soul Glo posted:Bolas is gonna make the Anti-Jacetice League, and it will be dumb Sigma-X posted:The Superfiends The team and I were discussing this over beers last night, it seems like a decent idea, so Wizards will never go for it. Bolas (head of evil Gatewatch) and then a B/color planeswalker as a counter to each member of the gatewatch - U/B Tezzeret - G/B Vraska (we considered Garruk, but he's too busy being a wildcard apex redditor to join a team) - R/B Tibalt (Wizards please print a R/B Tibalt that isn't the worst card ever made) - Straight B Bobby Nix (maybe he's cool with working for a team as long as it brings down that darn gatewatch) - W/B Golden Mask Elspeth, she's a returned, and she's spoopy and evil now (maybe she even pulls the face turn when it looks like the evil team is winning because she remembers her bro ajani)
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Kind of an unnecessary rarity shift but yeah that art is cool. Also have aven always had human arms or is this to model them more after ancient Egyptian styling? C-Euro fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 17:22
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Mezzanon posted:The team and I were discussing this over beers last night, it seems like a decent idea, so Wizards will never go for it. Mono U Ashiok?
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Mar 30, 2017 17:25
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Completely unplayable in the current standard but that could always change...
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This is the first time in a while they've actually found a home for a future-shifted card, right?
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Sickening posted:Too narrow. C-Euro posted:Also have aven always had human arms or is this to model them more after ancient Egyptian styling? Edit: Oh wait I totally misunderstood what you were asking. Yeah I think having featherless human arms is not common.
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Entropic posted:This is the first time in a while they've actually found a home for a future-shifted card, right? Oh poo poo yeah you're right, good catch. I can't even remember the last one they did. Nessian Courier maybe?
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:i wonder how many of the other amonkhet masterpieces are actually standard reprints What if they all are. 
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Rinkles posted:Now for containment priest. Not a chance of that happening. Too much for modern.
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Oh man I hope they actually bite the bullet and bring back Force 
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Not a chance of that happening. Too much for modern. Would it be?
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So what are we fetching that this hates on
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Containment Priest is a very hardcore motherfucker with very little opportunity cost, and it doesn't do anything to RDW, Death's Shadow, Eldrazi, Jund, or Junk, so it would just reinforce them by giving them (at least the white ones) a really good answer to things like Goryo's Vengeance that isn't totally dead in other match-ups.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:Not a chance of that happening. Too much for modern. What? Explain to me what containment priest is too strong for. Good answers are always on the menu.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:What if they all are. Suddenly standard become a nightmare of control decks, prison decks and mind twists for 4 at turn 3
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Soul Glo posted:So what are we fetching that this hates on It's surely an answer to the oppressive Planar Bridge deck FFL was convinced would otherwise dominate the metagame.
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