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Hot Take: 1/1 Flying Lifelink in the colors of Convoke and Mentor is probably going to be the best a 1/1 Flying Lifelink has ever looked in a limited set.
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Sep 4, 2018 22:13
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Don't care if surveil and jump start are bad, gonna play grixis all day in limited and mill some spells and cast them at my opponent's face. (Or maybe their dudes.)
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Sep 4, 2018 22:20
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Mr. Locke posted:Hot Take: 1/1 Flying Lifelink in the colors of Convoke and Mentor is probably going to be the best a 1/1 Flying Lifelink has ever looked in a limited set. trying to remember if Serra Ascendant ever got there, or if Vault Skirge was any good in limited. it's better than Daggerdrone Imp, at least!
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Sep 4, 2018 22:20
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Well, at least this set has a good 0-cost 1/1 Flying card
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Sep 4, 2018 22:28
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LifeLynx posted:There will be relevant jumpstart cards, we just haven't seen anything other than limited fodder yet. If the real preview week wraps up and we haven't seen anything good with the mechanic, I'll start to worry. This is the thread wherein someone compared Murmuring Mystic to Talrand negatively and no one noticed that 1) 1/5 is far, far better than 2/2 for sitting around and making tokens and 2) it's not legendary so a crowd of mystics can murmur about birds and create a loving migration of them each time you jump start some lovely card.
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Sep 4, 2018 22:29
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mcmagic posted:I'm pretty sure you can. The mana will probably be good enough. Chainwhirler doesn't have to be played on T3 to make it good. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Sep 4, 2018 |
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Sep 4, 2018 22:29
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Chill la Chill posted:It costs more and it should have some gravitas. Exile the creature perhaps, for it is not just killing, it is murder. Every time I murder someone they go to the graveyard 
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Sep 4, 2018 22:32
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Angry Grimace posted:I think RRR combined with 2 other colors is a lot harder to cast than you're envisioning. Not if there are 4 different good Rx dual lands in the format it's not.
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Sep 4, 2018 22:33
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CornHolio posted:Every time I murder someone they go to the graveyard If you dissolve the remains in strong acid, is that exiling them?
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Sep 4, 2018 22:35
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Lone Goat posted:At common? Maybe Exalted would be reasonable (or uncommon). 1/1 Flying Exalted was costed at 1W and it was great twice. 1/1 Flying Lifelink for W is very close to good enough by itself and if you have 2 Mentor creatures and 3 Convoke cards it'll be great.
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Sep 4, 2018 22:47
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CornHolio posted:Every time I murder someone they go to the graveyard Just lol if you aren't building a flesh pile in your shed.
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Sep 4, 2018 22:52
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Just lol if you aren't building a flesh pile in your shed. and we found our Golgari.
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Sep 4, 2018 22:54
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Angry Grimace posted:I think RRR combined with 2 other colors is a lot harder to cast than you're envisioning. I think it'll depend on what else is going on; this effect might be strong enough that it's worth playing even if the other side is unreliable/uncastable. Once all the gods and vehicles are gone, destroying all creatures starts looking pretty strong. If it turns out this is a "creature-value-midrange" type format, having an answer to Ghalta, Shalai, hexproof Merfolk, Carnage Tyrant (or whatever creatures end up being key) - and all at once - might be worth the jankiness cost (assuming a RB or RG or Rbg deck is generally viable).
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Sep 4, 2018 23:02
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Marketing New Brain posted:Seems like a bomb uncommon in draft, but the rate on the good half seems a bit off for constructed. I wonder if this means we don’t get putrefy in these three sets and instead it’s shifted to something similar to this in order to get rid of the messy regen clause. I have a certain nostalgia for it and smother and I’ll be a little sad if they’re gone for better templating. If there's a really aggressive izzet tempo deck in draft that has like, some Kiln Fiend type creatures and burn, I can see it being better than it looks in Limited. Framboise posted:On the hand of mechanics that ARE good, it seems like Overgrowth and Surveil do seem to synergize well. Also: if you surveil a Narcomoeba, it goes to the battlefield, right? That could be a fun little trick. That doesn't seem like enough of a payoff to risk having to draw Narcomoeba. The only deck that remotely wants Narcomoeba is one that's doing some heavy self-mill, like Dredge. A two-mana 1/1 flyer is just not a card in constructed, so drawing it is actively terrible. Maybe we get more graveyard mechanics next couple sets somewhere, with Orzhov maybe? I doubt we'll get anything powerful enough to make Narcomoeba playable in Standard. Entropic fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Sep 4, 2018 |
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Sep 4, 2018 23:05
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Just lol if you aren't building a flesh pile in your shed. azealia banks is that you
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Sep 4, 2018 23:18
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jmzero posted:I think it'll depend on what else is going on; this effect might be strong enough that it's worth playing even if the other side is unreliable/uncastable. That specific effect isn't good enough to run 2 more colors in your mono-red deck.
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Sep 4, 2018 23:25
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just lol at upshifting Narcomoeba to rare
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Sep 4, 2018 23:27
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Scryfall is p good https://twitter.com/CubeApril/status/1037101113818980352?s=19
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Sep 5, 2018 00:37
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Kurtofan posted:Scryfall is p good Gatherer, meanwhile, has had comments and ratings broken since like 2013.
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Sep 5, 2018 00:44
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Entropic posted:Gatherer, meanwhile, has had comments and ratings broken since like 2013. 2011 I think.
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Sep 5, 2018 00:58
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Hellsau posted:2011 I think. Also, I can't help but think this is intentional
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Sep 5, 2018 01:31
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Entropic posted:Gatherer, meanwhile, has had comments and ratings broken since like 2013. All hands have been on deck to deliver the top notch digital product we expect in MTGO
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Sep 5, 2018 01:45
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Entropic posted:Gatherer, meanwhile, has had comments and ratings broken since like 2013.
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Sep 5, 2018 02:07
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Lone Goat posted:Why you ever want to read ratings and comments from the people that would leave them on Gatherer? This is probably why it hasn't been fixed. The ratings were kind of interesting though, mostly for random poo poo like seeing which basic lands were rated highest.
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Sep 5, 2018 02:23
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I learned a lot of useful and interesting things perusing them as someone at the time with a mostly kitchen table understanding of the game.
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Sep 5, 2018 02:31
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Lone Goat posted:trying to remember if Serra Ascendant ever got there, or if Vault Skirge was any good in limited. I don't remember Skirge being great or anything but IIRC there were enough artifact synergies and good equipment for it to work out sometimes. Lifelink just doing nothing sometimes was less than ideal though.
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Sep 5, 2018 02:32
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Lone Goat posted:Why you ever want to read ratings and comments from the people that would leave them on Gatherer? Gatherer was actually a great starting out point to learn about the game and some comments were surprisingly thoughtful and interesting.
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Sep 5, 2018 03:03
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There are a lot of weird edge case rules things that I bet would get covered in the gatherer comments that can't be found from googling. Sometimes I have questions about cards interactions with certain mechanics or other cards and I bet others have had similar issues.
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Sep 5, 2018 03:07
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I can’t get over MaRo’s voice acting here https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1037120718373367810
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Sep 5, 2018 03:08
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Kurtofan posted:Scryfall is p good Thunderdome idea: choose an art color and build a deck with its results from this search.
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Sep 5, 2018 05:26
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so i'm guessing some websites are sleeping on their previews again, why else did we get nothing besides the website two days into the spoiler season
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Sep 5, 2018 09:26
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Kurtofan posted:so i'm guessing some websites are sleeping on their previews again, why else did we get nothing besides the website two days into the spoiler season Sleeping? I thought wotc set the reveal schedule.
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Sep 5, 2018 10:06
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Rinkles posted:Sleeping? I thought wotc set the reveal schedule. They do but it's up to the people who receives the spoilers to actually reveal them. Otherwise they'll just pop up a day late on the magic website, that's what happened for a spoiler or two last time. Or maybe it's just labor day screwing with the usual spoiler scheduling
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Sep 5, 2018 10:49
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Official spoilers don't start until 10th, all we've had so far were early reveals from PAX, and the mechanics article from wotc. And I guess some of the cards + cool new basics from the guild packs
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Sep 5, 2018 11:51
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Cauldron Moose posted:Official spoilers don't start until 10th, all we've had so far were early reveals from PAX, and the mechanics article from wotc. And I guess some of the cards + cool new basics from the guild packs oh that blows 
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Sep 5, 2018 14:58
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These do not look good https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1037090450971209728 I wish they would do a nice matte finish on the premium cards instead of foiling them.
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Sep 5, 2018 15:01
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Tainen posted:These do not look good That kind of looks like what they were doing for the Masterpieces in BFZ and KLD unless I'm mistaken (I haven't actually opened up a Masterpiece myself )
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Sep 5, 2018 15:03
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Tainen posted:These do not look good I didn't think they looked good before. Seeing the cheap 90's Marvel trading card finish makes it even worse.
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Sep 5, 2018 15:04
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Someday they’ll figure out how to do foil inlays so we can have signed rookie Rebecca Guay cards
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suicidesteve posted:I didn't think they looked good before. Seeing the cheap 90's Marvel trading card finish makes it even worse. That's exactly what they remind me of now that you pointed it out. On the one hand, I'm glad that all these premium/fancy/rare collectors cards are foil because I don't like foils, so it spares me from even wanting them. On the other, it'd be nice to get some cool frames or full art cards that aren't foiled at some point.
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