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DigitalMocking posted:well raise my rent. Energy isn't mana.
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Marketing New Brain posted:I mean Jace uptick was definitely unpleasant but I think not that different than any slow control deck win con. Being drownyarded out or towered out is all pretty much the same, the format had fetchlands fateseal wasn't even a real lock. Let's not forget Rishadan Port for a long run of inducing frustarted semi-helplessness in opponents before you get around to killing them.
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Entropic posted:So are we supposed to recognize the weird knobbly staff that Elder Dragon God Pharaoh Legend Bolas is stealing in the art of Dispossess? This horrible card might actually be standard playable now...
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Apr 27, 2017 18:20
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Chill la Chill posted:Mana burn was a gotcha mechanic that really didn't add anything to the game. The only design space was used with that one card that gave you mana during each upkeep. Braid of Fire is still a cool design. The design actually ruined by the death of mana burn is Spectral Searchlight, but the card is still fine.
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Apr 27, 2017 18:27
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Smashing Link posted:Let's not forget Rishadan Port for a long run of inducing frustarted semi-helplessness in opponents before you get around to killing them. I always think of opposition as the ultimate no fun torture card but magic has had plenty of them. Some of them like Blood Moon are actually fine and help balance a format. I think Modern will always be a better format than Legacy as long as Wasteland is still a card, and a huge number of games just don't happen due to it.
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Marketing New Brain posted:I always think of opposition as the ultimate no fun torture card but magic has had plenty of them. Some of them like Blood Moon are actually fine and help balance a format. I think Modern will always be a better format than Legacy as long as Wasteland is still a card, and a huge number of games just don't happen due to it. I don't find that to be the case and that is coming from someone who loves playing Wasteland/Stifle decks in legacy. You don't waste people out of games very often.
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There's a new magic story out from a day or so ago. Basic rundown: Nissa is wandering though Amonkhet checking how nice everything is as long as you don't check out how awfully hosed up the leylines and energy of the plane is. She wanders into Kefnet's temple and stumbles into the Trial! Of! Knowledge! trying to find answers about how Bolas hosed things up. Spoiler alert: It nearly loving kills her. It's filled with endless nightmare illusions, which she defeats by closing her eyes and telling them to gently caress off under her breath. She finds herself in another room of illusions that tell the truth now, and she sees an allegory for how Bolas jacked up the plane and killed three gods leaving "just three dark rents in the fabric of the sky. Three dark holes, possessed of an energy and fury all their own, pulsing to a rhythm malevolent." So, maybe expect to see some evil corpse gods in Hour of Devastation. She also sees that Nicol Bolas' travels have left a literal trail of darkness behind him through the planes. Maybe. It's all in allegory, so who loving knows. Anyway, she gets trapped in a revelation loop and an angel that "reminds her of Emrakul" (wink wink) tells her to stop being a pawn or a queen, and instead be a player. Then Kefnet jumps in out of nowhere, pissed that someone is interfering with his Trail. He gets good and ready to kill Nissa, until she uses leyline magic to open up Amonkhet's debug menu and sets Kefnet's murdervalue to false. Then he fucks off, saying she passed the trial, and she fucks off feeling pretty jazzed that she's not a complete punk anymore.
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Apr 27, 2017 18:34
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At this point more non-games probably happen to turn 1 blood moons, chalices, or combos than wasteland
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Apr 27, 2017 18:42
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Those 3 "holes" and the angel that kinda looks like Emmy are going to be the 3 titans as depicted by those statues on that one card aren't they
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Apr 27, 2017 18:41
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gwrtheyrn posted:At this point more non-games probably happen to turn 1 blood moons, chalices, or combos than wasteland Yeah. Blood Moon is completely obnoxious and much more of a feel bad in legacy than Wasteland.
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AceClown posted:Those 3 "holes" and the angel that kinda looks like Emmy are going to be the 3 titans as depicted by those statues on that one card aren't they Last week they basically said that there are 3 missing Gods on amonkhet so it's probably those
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mcmagic posted:Yeah. Blood Moon is completely obnoxious and much more of a feel bad in legacy than Wasteland. If you want to run 3-4 colour fetch bullshit be prepared to pay the price of progress
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Elyv posted:Last week they basically said that there are 3 missing Gods on amonkhet so it's probably those Yeah these ones  No idea how they will bring them back or tie all that up but I would not for one second be surprised if WotC did a stupid thing and brought eldrazi in to Hour
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Apr 27, 2017 18:47
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mcmagic posted:Yeah. Blood Moon is completely obnoxious and much more of a feel bad in legacy than Wasteland. People just sort of have accepted getting wasted out of games it doesn't make for a good format and Blood Moon isn't anywhere near as prevalent.
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mcmagic posted:This horrible card might actually be standard playable now... That effect is not playable. AceClown posted:Yeah these ones Emrakul is still alive, but I'm guessing when they bring her back they'll make her sentient (they had some storyline hints that they could either talk or communicate). Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Apr 27, 2017 18:54
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By leaving when people got mad at her, Emrakul showed more self-awareness than the average goon. 
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Apr 27, 2017 19:07
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Jace gonna bang that otherworldly horror 
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AceClown posted:Yeah these ones I don't think it fits with the way they've done things or with the story thus far so I think it's unlikely. Could be wrong, though.
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Not that poo poo again. The eldrazi don't need to pervade every aspect of the lore. I never loved them but I appreciated they were very different from what they did before. Now I'm sick and tired of them. Emra'--gently caress OFF.
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myDad posted:Jace gonna bang that otherworldly horror I think that was the first thing Ajani said when he joined the Gatewatch right? "This guy fucks."
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Rinkles posted:Not that poo poo again. The eldrazi don't need to pervade every aspect of the lore. I never loved them but I appreciated they were very different from what they did before. Now I'm sick and tired of them. Emra'--gently caress OFF. gently caress em'rakul? I mean, who wouldn't, amirite? 
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I really hope that's just a plot thread that ends up with bolas having created the eldrazi for his master plan and we never actually see them again.
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DigitalMocking posted:well raise my rent. Energy counters aren't mana. They don't empty from your pool at the end of steps and phases. You just have them until you spend them.
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mcmagic posted:I don't find that to be the case and that is coming from someone who loves playing Wasteland/Stifle decks in legacy. You don't waste people out of games very often. I've literally only played Wasteland decks and I think there's maybe one game every 2 weeks where Wasteland actually wins the game. And they're always against Delver. Your 6 mana-producing, 9 fetch, 0 basic deck folding to a Wasteland is an issue with your deck, not with the card. It's another one of those things that people like to complain about because it's "not fun." Which means Wasteland will probably be banned within a year. gwrtheyrn posted:At this point more non-games probably happen to turn 1 blood moons, chalices, or combos than wasteland Absolutely. Even with decks that are good against those cards, sometimes you draw the wrong part of your deck. I've lost to turn 1 Chalice as Death and Taxes because I kept Swords + Vial and drew Vial, Mom, Mom, Swords. I've almost lost to turn 1 Blood Moon in my 10 basic Plains deck because I had a good hand that didn't have a basic.
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Angry Grimace posted:That effect is not playable. If 20% of the meta is control decks who's only wincon is Torrential Gearhulk...
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Angry Grimace posted:That effect is not playable. emrakul already is sentient, i think you mean to say "able to communicate" altho she technically can already do that with people she's uh "infected" going by Nissa and Jace's brain journeys ugg 2 whole sentences about the magic story, kill me
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mcmagic posted:If 20% of the meta is control decks who's only wincon is Torrential Gearhulk... They would still have manlands
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I told you guys - the pyramids are the new hedrons. Bolas is going to get the Eldrazi and Phyrexians and form a Legion of Doom to oppose The Jacetice League.
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Veyrall posted:There's a new magic story out from a day or so ago. I really appreciate you posting recaps  :I'm curious if the "three dark rents in the fabric of the sky" and the two suns are related. Maybe there are 5 more gods?
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Three missing gods = the three eldrazi is the second dumbest story theory I've heard yet.
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Siivola posted:Three missing gods = the three eldrazi is the second dumbest story theory I've heard yet. Dumb theory or dumb story? Because if you don't believe its plausible you have way too much faith in WOTC story telling.
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If one of the missing gods isn't this big tittied hippo I'm done with Magic.
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I like the eldrazi. Please give me more.
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All the planes in the multiverse are Bolas' dragon eggs. He allows them to grow up and hatch, then eats them.
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suicidesteve posted:I've literally only played Wasteland decks and I think there's maybe one game every 2 weeks where Wasteland actually wins the game. And they're always against Delver. Your 6 mana-producing, 9 fetch, 0 basic deck folding to a Wasteland is an issue with your deck, not with the card. It's another one of those things that people like to complain about because it's "not fun." Which means Wasteland will probably be banned within a year. As someone who watches a fair amount of DnT but doesn't play, I'd argue that wastelands turn some combo matchups from non-games into games, and I feel like this happens more often than the other way around just due to how many decks in the format are built knowing they might eat a few wastes and ports
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Smashing Link posted:All the planes in the multiverse are Bolas' dragon eggs. He allows them to grow up and hatch, then eats them. Isn't that basically the Marvel universe? Having this be the source of the Eldrazi is fine by me so long as they don't bring the cards back, which I can't imagine they'd do. Then again, the space is still there for some gold gods, and this gives them an excuse to add some more in the mix.
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Entropic posted:So are we supposed to recognize the weird knobbly staff that Elder Dragon God Pharaoh Legend Bolas is stealing in the art of Dispossess? Obviously that's Feldon's Cane. Reprint confirmed.
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EatinCake posted:Having this be the source of the Eldrazi is fine by me so long as they don't bring the cards back, which I can't imagine they'd do. Then again, the space is still there for some gold gods, and this gives them an excuse to add some more in the mix.
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HMS Beagle posted:If one of the missing gods isn't this big tittied hippo I'm done with Magic. I'm thinking, mechanically, exactly what the missing gods may have been. I'm thinking, a 5 color one, one that can change its color identity, and a colorless one, but I don't think they can even do a colorless one since colorless cards have certain predefined spaces and limitations and flavor... Or hey, maybe I'm overthinking the cycle and it's just not even gonna be a thing outside of the lore. mandatory lesbian posted:ugg 2 whole sentences about the magic story, kill me
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