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kater posted:Are all the built-in tells Arena has good or bad? I don't play counterspells so its not like I've seen them many times, but they just added visuals to check lands this last patch and I unno it seems a bit much. Not that I haven't been not paying attention before and screwed up. Are you talking about the phases halting if you have something to play vs when you don't? If I have a instant or something I try to mash pass after the last thing I want to do for the turn resolves (like after combat) so it doesn't halt. Elsewise, in one way I hate that there's a highlight if you, say, look at someones graveyard. On the other hand when the other person is playing I'll just go through their graveyard randomly. If I don't have a graveyard-targeting spell then I hope they keep thinking I do. Or instead if I do have a graveyard-targeting spell then maybe they'll just think I'm an idiot for looking a lot (which is kind of true). I do also highlight random cards in play a lot but mostly because I'm not familiar with them at all.
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Arglebargle III posted:I like the knight that does the same thing as dusk legion zealot but for 4 mana. a 1/1 that trades for anything is a little different from a 1/1 that trades for nothing
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The Sean posted:Are you talking about the phases halting if you have something to play vs when you don't? If I have a instant or something I try to mash pass after the last thing I want to do for the turn resolves (like after combat) so it doesn't halt. The highlighting I don't mind since it mirrors paper magic where you can't read cards or check graveyards/handsize without your opponent knowing that that is info you want for some reason. The auto passing is the annoying one but you can always fuss with full control there if it seems likely to matter.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:a 1/1 that trades for anything is a little different from a 1/1 that trades for nothing mods???
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starkebn posted:the knight deck is easily the worst of the four The commander is just not very good and too slow, especially in what is meant to be an aggro deck. To get any value from him you need equipment and creatures that can attack, but if you can't attack profitably then you're really just drawing cards to replace stuff that died uselessly. Also the draw isn't even free, you pay life for it. And you can't stack all your equipment on one attacker, that only draws one. Meanwhile chulane is coming out a turn earlier and tags a growth spiral on every creature spell for free without risking anything. I don't think gwyn is going to see much play.
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It also hurts immensely that you can nail the A+ aggro draw, except you didn't, because you have three tap lands. So you have a commander that needs ramp with like 2 ramp cards and an aggro creature base with lands that clunk it up. Oh and they cut two knights for shivan dragon and mask of immolation, so there's even less knights in the deck. I don't think we'll see much Gwyn unless they replace the 5 planeswalker deck slots in the mastery pass with the 4 brawl precon commanders and the 2 PWer deck walkers, except that would make sense so that's not gonna happen.
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Are all PWs fair game for commander in Brawl
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Yeah Gwyn is noticeably worse...all the decks need more removal but his especially because his deck can't do poo poo once the flyer deck gets some flyers out.
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zoux posted:Are all PWs fair game for commander in Brawl Yeah. You're still locked into the commander colors though, so if you pick big chandra you still have to have a mono red deck.
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As of now yes. They can restrict cards from being commanders if they wind up problematic though.
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I tried all 4 commanders and Chulane is the most fun for me
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Isn’t Syr Gwyn a woman?
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Yeah one thing people should consider when thinking about upcoming Brawl is how narrow the card pool becomes with a mono or dual color commander. Four sets are rotating out and take a lot of pieces with them.vegetables posted:Isn’t Syr Gwyn a woman?
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Esper faerie commander + all the artifact enablers in M20 sounds pretty fun to me.
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The flavor texts indicates that Gwyn is female.
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Nissa as a brawl commander will be pretty spicy I feel
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MikeCrotch posted:Nissa as a brawl commander will be pretty spicy I feel 5 mana and mono colored. Barf.
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God. I really wish there was a Wow! emote. It would be nice to compliment people at times, but right now I have gone 8 turns with the fairy deck without being able to play anything. And it's also dumb that there's no explanation of how the new format works The Sean fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Sep 7, 2019 |
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Paul Zuvella posted:5 mana and mono colored. Barf. Are there enough mana dorks in the format to guarantee a t3 nissa? Because not a lot of decks can handle endless 3/3's.
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Drewjitsu posted:Are there enough mana dorks in the format to guarantee a t3 nissa? Because not a lot of decks can handle endless 3/3's. How do you even get a t3 nissa post rotation? e: like arboreal grazer t1 into t2 dork? What else is there?
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Dr. Stab posted:How do you even get a t3 nissa post rotation? Gilded goose!
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Yeah seriously take any mono colored walker, set it to singleton and then turn off the four sets rotating out. Obviously there's going to be some new stuff but card quality drops like a rock. Mono green probably needs to wrangle some kronches.Hallucinogenic Toreador posted:Gilded goose! If the format has free mulligans gonna be kinda lol for that actually.
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There's also saruli caretaker. So you'd have 3 outs to get the t1 and then each of them has different caveats. Grazer needs the extra land, and saruli caretaker needs a 1 mana creature. Both saruli caretaker and gilded goose need the t2 ramp to cost 2 mana and not 3. It wasn't "guaranteed" with 4x llanowar elves. It definitely won't be anywhere close in brawl.
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Dr. Stab posted:How do you even get a t3 nissa post rotation? No idea, I totally didn't even think about what mana dorks are going to be in standard post rotation.
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Make lots of food tokens and bring them to life with Karn and whatever else turns things into artifact creatures! RAWR, I smash you with a giant walking pie! EDIT: I love "Bake into a Pie". It's legit one of the silliest black cards I've ever seen.
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DrSunshine posted:Make lots of food tokens and bring them to life with Karn and whatever else turns things into artifact creatures! RAWR, I smash you with a giant walking pie! Sillier than making a giant formless (non-indestructible) godbeing walk the plank to its death? (or a flying creature?) I mean, you'd have to have a pretty good kitchen to get some of the more esoteric things out there, but it's not impossible. You don't know, they could be big Heston Blumenthal fans. ![]()
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Spiderdrake posted:The art depicton is feminine and Gwyn is a female name, yes. The coolest Gwyn of all time is a dude.
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Drewjitsu posted:Sillier than making a giant formless (non-indestructible) godbeing walk the plank to its death? (or a flying creature?) Step 1: Have leyline of anticipation Step 2: Cast Frogify on Gideon Blackblade on opponent's turn Step 3: Cast Bake into a Pie on frogified Gideon
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fadam posted:The coolest Gwyn of all time is a dude. https://twitter.com/JLIENnnn/status/1094782202129207296 ![]()
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fadam posted:The coolest Gwyn of all time is a dude. wtf does that mean?
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fadam posted:The coolest Gwyn of all time is a dude. Also apparently it is a common male name I've never encountered before. Apologies to all the Gwyns out there.
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DrSunshine posted:Make lots of food tokens and bring them to life with Karn and whatever else turns things into artifact creatures! RAWR, I smash you with a giant walking pie! The first pw revealed for Eldrane is already exactly this! The food turns into elves though which says something awful about elves I feel.
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The Sean posted:wtf does that mean? It means that Gwyn isn’t exclusively a ladies name, pal.
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kater posted:The first pw revealed for Eldrane is already exactly this! Elks, not Elfs
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kater posted:The first pw revealed for Eldrane is already exactly this! Also all three walkers from the set proper are really cool designs, even without dipping back into the passive space, gonna be fun to play around with them.
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fadam posted:It means that Gwyn isn’t exclusively a ladies name, pal. Nah, you didn't mean it's not exclusively a woman's name. You specifically said the best Gwyn ever was a man. I'm flashing back now to the last thread where you had to defend yourself to multiple people that you're not alt right and I mentioned that your avatar looked like a white male mass murderer. I didn't even say that you were but for ~some reason~ that hit a nerve. The Sean fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Sep 7, 2019 |
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Ya'll want to freak the gently caress out? Gwen and Gwyn are the same name
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Holy poo poo do we really need to argue about the gender politics of medieval Welsh names?
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Apparently it's a relatively common real life name of both genders so there's not really any argument going on fadam is just talking about Dark Souls I think? Paul Zuvella posted:Gwen and Gwyn are the same name
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The Sean posted:Nah, you didn't mean it's not exclusively a woman's name. You specifically said the best Gwyn ever was a man. I'm flashing back now to the last thread where you had to defend yourself to multiple people that you're not alt right and I mentioned that your avatar looked like a white male mass murderer. I didn't even say that you were but for ~some reason~ that hit a nerve. lmao where did this come from ![]() keep goin
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