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Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

Am I off base to think that El Chupacabra is constructed playable compared to the removal we've currently got in standard? 4 mana unconditional giving you 2 for 1 value by leaving behind bears? If you don't need to exile or hit a PW (admittedly big ifs) better upside than Contempt.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 15:44

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# ? Jun 2, 2024 03:36

Fajita Queen: Jun 21, 2012

C-Euro posted:

I appreciate this post.

I am glad somebody understood what I was going for there.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 15:48

Tainen: Jan 23, 2004

Arterial Flux - 1BB - Each oponent discard two cards. If you control a Vampire, each oponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 15:50

mossyfisk: Nov 8, 2010; FF0000

phew, I was worried this Standard was in trouble when it only had three Mind Rots in it. Being able to play 16 should help a lot.

Tainen posted:

Each player chooses any number of creatures under his or her control with a total power of 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures under his or her control.

Finally, the answer to Carnage Tyrant for which we've all been waiting.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 15:54

Tainen: Jan 23, 2004

11 days till the next B&R update. If they haven't had all the pros they hired for the Play Design Team testing these cards against energy for the last few months they messed up.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:14

Elyv: Jun 14, 2013

Stormgale posted:

Tainen posted:

Disperse in the Wind 2U
Instant
Exile target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, it's owner may cast it without paying its mana cost.

This set is so loving bizarre. Kinda wonder if it's because of the weird, between set structure thing that maro mentioned in his article.

for actual content, have a man-o-war that doesn't work when you want a man-o-war to work

"Fathom Fleet Mutineer"
3U
Creature - Human Pirate
Raid - When "Fathom Fleet Mutineer" enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, you may return target creature to it's owner's hand.
3/2

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:15

Errant Gin Monks: Oct 2, 2009; "Yeah..."
- Marshawn Lynch

Tainen posted:

Disperse in the Wind 2U
Instant
Exile target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, it's owner may cast it without paying its mana cost.

I guess you could reanimate emrakul and then cast her. Could be good when you use Nahiri to put Emrakul into play.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:32

Elyv: Jun 14, 2013

Errant Gin Monks posted:

I guess you could reanimate emrakul and then cast her. Could be good when you use Nahiri to put Emrakul into play.

even if this were possible it seems kind of win-more

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:34

Tainen: Jan 23, 2004

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:34

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

Errant Gin Monks posted:

I guess you could reanimate emrakul and then cast her. Could be good when you use Nahiri to put Emrakul into play.

That�s like textbook win-more

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:35

Tainen: Jan 23, 2004

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:36

Katana Gomai: Jan 14, 2007; "Thus," concluded Miyamoto, "you must give up everything you have to be my disciple."

Tainen posted:

Arterial Flux - 1BB - Each oponent discard two cards. If you control a Vampire, each oponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

This wins 2HG at the prerelease so hard lol

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:38

Sickening: Jul 16, 2007; Black summer was the best summer.

Tainen posted:

Well this seems its either going to be terribly broken or totally useless.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:38

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

Tainen posted:

That seems pretty good. A looting effect that transforms into a repeatable channel that doesn�t cost you life?

Does the flip condition interact favourably with split cards?

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:38

Elyv: Jun 14, 2013

Tainen posted:

this card may be extremely good

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:40

Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

Tainen posted:

Not even a Legendary land. This is a 4 of in Hidden Stockpile/Anointed Procession servos (whatever clever name people are calling that deck).

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:40

Devor: Nov 30, 2004; Lurking more.

Entropic posted:

That�s like textbook win-more

More like textbook warning for game rule violation, for targeting Emrakul with a colored spell

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:41

C-Euro: Mar 20, 2010; Soiled Meat

Did they do a rules primer yet for this set? It's unclear to me if you lose the city's blessing if you are at 10+ permanents and then drop below 10.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:45

Tainen: Jan 23, 2004

C-Euro posted:

Did they do a rules primer yet for this set? It's unclear to me if you lose the city's blessing if you are at 10+ permanents and then drop below 10.

Yes they posted it on Monday. Once you get the blessing you get it for the rest of the game even if you drop below 10 permanents.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/rivals-ixalan-mechanics-2018-01-01

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:47

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Sickening posted:

Well this seems its either going to be terribly broken or totally useless.

It's broken. This card is loving insane. A 2 mana artifact that tapped and looted for 1 seems just fine without flipping to make infinite mana...

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:47

Sickening: Jul 16, 2007; Black summer was the best summer.

mcmagic posted:

It's broken. This card is loving insane. A 2 mana artifact that tapped and looted for 1 seems just fine without flipping to make infinite mana...

And the infinite mana of one color? A simple fireball/emmy/whatever? What a bizzare card to print. I figure it will be expensive.

Getting 5 cards of various cmc is quite a hurdle though.

Sickening fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jan 4, 2018

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:52

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Entropic posted:

Does the flip condition interact favourably with split cards?

quote:

708.4b The mana cost of a split card is the combined mana costs of its two halves. A split card�s colors and converted mana cost are determined from its combined mana cost.
Example: Assault/Battery�s mana cost is {3}{R}{G}. It�s a red and green card with a converted mana cost of 5. If you cast Assault, the resulting spell is a red spell with a converted mana cost of 1.

Unfortunately not. Still, it's completely busted if you have enough CMC variation in your deck. (I suspect it'll have more value in eternal formats though.)

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:52

Stangg: Mar 17, 2009

Do lands count as having a cmc of zero?

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:53

Elyv: Jun 14, 2013

Matsuri posted:

Unfortunately not. Still, it's completely busted if you have enough CMC variation in your deck. (I suspect it'll have more value in eternal formats though.)

You mean, the formats where almost every playable card except FoW costs between 1 and 3?

# ? Jan 4, 2018 16:54

Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

Elyv posted:

You mean, the formats where almost every playable card except FoW costs between 1 and 3?

Lands are zero. :smug:

# ? Jan 4, 2018 17:00

mcmagic: Jul 1, 2004; If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

Sickening posted:

And the infinite mana of one color? A simple fireball/emmy/whatever? What a bizzare card to print. I figure it will be expensive.

Getting 5 cards of various cmc is quite a hurdle though.

Control decks usually have the widest variety of CMC's and that is the deck this thing fits the best in... You'd have to build your deck around it slightly but I don't think you'll have to do much... Even if it didn't flip with huge upside, it would see play.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 17:02

ShaneB: Oct 22, 2002

mcmagic posted:

Control decks usually have the widest variety of CMC's and that is the deck this thing fits the best in... You'd have to build your deck around it slightly but I don't think you'll have to do much... Even if it didn't flip with huge upside, it would see play.

And even more, control decks control the top of their decks more with scry effects.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 17:07

mossyfisk: Nov 8, 2010; FF0000

Tainen posted:

God I wanna run Grixis Gateway Control and cast a giant Torment of Hailfire.

ShaneB posted:

And even more, control decks control the top of their decks more with scry effects.

Remember you don't have to exile the card you draw, it can be anything.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 17:10

Rinkles: Oct 24, 2010; What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Elyv posted:

This set is so loving bizarre. Kinda wonder if it's because of the weird, between set structure thing that maro mentioned in his article.

Something definitely feels different about the designs. A bunch feel novel for the sake of being novel, whilst being mostly crap, like they were designed by a rookie designer without much allowance for power. Some stuff does seem potentially strong though.

# ? Jan 4, 2018 17:10