Lone Goat posted:

Outside of a weird tempo deck like Simic Flash or UWU SEPHARA ^__^, this doesn't seem very good at all.

Like yes it's effectively a split card but both sides are bad. There's 20 split cards in standard right now and how much many of them are actually played? 3?

And even then you're asking for someone to play narrow countermagic in a world dominated by T3feri, where the payoff is a Welkin Tern.

Elyv posted:

Elyv posted:

all of you guys thinking 1 mana limited threaten is good are confusing me

anyway



E: this is the BAB

Elyv posted:

all of you guys thinking 1 mana limited threaten is good are confusing me

anyway



E: this is the BAB

Archenteron posted:

If they bring back Emperor as a format I'm gonna lol.

Also that 1 Mana threaten seems like a hilarious(ly bad) idea in modern

Elyv posted:

all of you guys thinking 1 mana limited threaten is good are confusing me

anyway



E: this is the BAB

InterrupterJones posted:

Yeah, it would only be good in Feather if her ability didn’t say creature you control.

Elyv posted:

all of you guys thinking 1 mana limited threaten is good are confusing me

anyway



E: this is the BAB

GoutPatrol posted:

Getting Omar Rayyan was a good choice, nobody does "squiggly tree thing" like them. Now where the gently caress is Guay. I will accept saving her for last if she did all the basics in this set.

Kurtofan posted:

she's doing art for adults

Star Man posted:

That implies she makes porn. It's really more like figure drawing and figure painting.

Vaah posted:

He's literally a charm

Huxley posted:

Hey, here's a good card.

Andrast posted:

anything is porn for someone

Star Man posted:

What I'm trying to say is that she dumped you nerds a long time ago for a real career in art. She's too good for you.

Andrast posted:

what kind of a loser would want to have their art in a gallery instead of trading cards for nerds

Count Bleck posted:

Rebecca Guay, apparently

Vaah posted:

He's literally a charm

Sampatrick posted:

How can the power hungry nobility be white

TheMaestroso posted:

1) All the split cards in Standard are more than one color if you want to use both sides. That's a pretty notable limit on their utility, as is many of their CMCs.

2) It counters Smolferi

3) The creature is icing on the cake

Star Man posted:

What I'm trying to say is that she dumped you nerds a long time ago for a real career in art. She's too good for you.

Vaah posted:

Shhh keep your voice down, Seb might hear you.

Star Man posted:

You should see Guay's current professional website and read her CV and her artist's statement and bio. Y'all are loving dead to her.

https://www.rleveille.com/

Star Man posted:

You should see Guay's current professional website and read her CV and her artist's statement and bio. Y'all are loving dead to her.

https://www.rleveille.com/

Andrast posted:

what a loser

Kurtofan posted:

lol imagine she would ever go back to illustrating pieces of cardboard

Rebecca-Leveille Guay in an interview in 2016 posted:

L: (laughs). In your career you’ve worked in all manner of artistic mediums, from children’s stories, graphic novels to fantasy card games, what triggered the transition to a focus on gallery shows?

R: I owe a great debt to comics/graphic novels and fantasy card games like Magic for that. The fact that when I shifted to gallery I had actual “fans” from those places- many whom have followed me to the gallery work. I changed my name after the 2013 show from Guay to Leveille (also a family name) though, to give the personal work a chance to stand in its own right, separate from illustration. I have great respect for both worlds, but illustration is often connected to a style guide that someone else created or a sale of a product, that’s its intention, and in that way frequently one is only saying a small portion of what’s in their artistic heart, it’s a collaboration with passion but also with product in mind. I found that I would do a whole series of new works from a very personal place, and then a new MTG (Magic the Gathering) card set would come out and the internet would be flooded all over again with a painting I’d done, for someone else’s character, intention, goals, product, often one I’d done in my twenties often in a style that I no longer work in and the new work would get overshadowed by the juggernaut of the commercial illustration and innate popularity of the game itself. Again, I was thankful and have been thankful for the popularity of the game, its meant a lot for many artists, including myself but the new work deserved a chance to exist without that, have its own place.

I left illustration though so I could truly paint the things I most wanted to paint. No matter how wonderful the job in illustration you get is there’s always someone else dictating the terms either through style guide or a manuscript or what the market will or will not buy and I wanted to make art without those confines. I wanted to paint with my whole heart and full intention and that meant gallery work.

Elyv posted:

this set is remarkably wordy

Elyv posted:

this set is remarkably wordy

Elyv posted:

this set is remarkably wordy