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the big bad of AFR is 100% Lolth because drizzt is the unquestionably biggest star/Gary stu/hero of the Forgotten Realms and Lolth is his nemesis.
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There was an unknown PW on Ikoria who hosed with the Ozolith. I have to imagine there's something up there.
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Aug 26, 2021 03:52
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Froghammer posted:There was an unknown PW on Ikoria who hosed with the Ozolith, the Kenriths are 100% going to bump into the Gatewatch, and we're going back to Dominaria so obviously something's up there I was told that was Oko. My big conspiracy is that the sexy elf PW in Kaldheim that looks exactly like Oko is also secretly Oko, but I have no idea if he even got up to anything in the story. It'd be cool and kind of appropriate if the next big bad guy was UG.
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Aug 26, 2021 03:53
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fadam posted:Can a loremaster weigh in on what colour the big bad guy was in the recent sets? A lot of the cards in AFR are of villains. The spider lady and the Beholder kingpin, right? STX Oriq was the villain trying to summon the demon on the back of the card (he succeeded and the twins took it down) ZNR Nahiri was messing around with the floaty rocks. IKO Lukka went a little crazy and killed General Kudro and I think this sparked an invasion of Drannith THB Heliod was comitted to re-trapping elspeth in the underworld and upon losing was trapped sysyphis style (as depicted in Heliod's Punishment) Eld Oko turned the king into an Elk and also tried to stop the twins Questing by sicking Garruk on them. War Bolas.
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Aug 26, 2021 04:15
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HootTheOwl posted:A lot of the cards in AFR are of villains. The spider lady and the Beholder kingpin, right? Depending on if you count Luka’s fox it sounds like W is pretty well represented.
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Aug 26, 2021 04:25
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fadam posted:Can a loremaster weigh in on what colour the big bad guy was in the recent sets? ZNR was Nahiri doing ecoterrorism (RW) IKO was the General Kudro guy (BW) and whoever tweaked the Ozolith to make all the monsters go crazy THB was, uhhh Ashiok and the underworld God (Phenax?) but also Heliod for teamkilling Elspeth in the first place ELD was...Oko? War was Bolas White seems to be up there but mostly either "corrupted into going too far by some other color's influence" or pure white "uh oh too much zealotry, you've circled back around to fascism" stuff. They gotta switch it up and do a White villain who is a hardcore ascetic - they don't want anything but they don't want anyone else to have anything either - just eternal peace and silence- and are somehow powerful enough to force it.
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Aug 26, 2021 04:26
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On Kaldheim, Tibalt was the villain. I don’t know what exactly what we was doing, probably trying to start a war between the different factions or something. Vorinclex was a side story. He used the phyrexians’ new jank-rear end planeswalking technology to come to the plane, get a sample of the stuff the gods of Kaldheim use to make themselves immortal, and leave.
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Ariong posted:On Kaldheim, Tibalt was the villain. I don’t know what exactly what we was doing, probably trying to start a war between the different factions or something. quote:See, this Horrible Beast had heard about Tibalt's many talents and desperately needed his help. The beast knew that a handsome and powerful planeswalker such as Tibalt would never stoop to helping a hideous, stupid monster unless his hand was forced, so the Horrible Beast snuck up on him one day and stuck Tibalt with a nasty, tricky sort of poison. He called this poison a "seed"—and the only way the Horrible Beast would remove it was if Tibalt caused a distraction on his behalf.
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Aug 26, 2021 06:07
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lol at the image of a big ol' flesh zombie dinosaur "sneaking" up on anything. Can't picture it without hanna-barbara sound effects.
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Aug 26, 2021 06:51
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The World Inferno posted:lol at the image of a big ol' flesh zombie dinosaur "sneaking" up on anything. Can't picture it without hanna-barbara sound effects. yeah he is lying to save face, 'clex paralyzes gods just by approaching, Tibalt never had a chance
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Aug 26, 2021 07:35
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fadam posted:Can a loremaster weigh in on what colour the big bad guy was in the recent sets? STX: Extus (WB) KHM: Tibalt (RB) ZNR: Nahiri (WR) IKO: Lukka (R) THB: Heliod (W) and Ashiok(UB) ELD: Oko (UG) WAR: Bolas (UBR)
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YggdrasilTM posted:STX: Extus (WB) 4 black, 4 red, 3 white, 3 blue, 1 green. Need a little of that nature’s wrath it looks like.
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Aug 26, 2021 10:05
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YggdrasilTM posted:STX: Extus (WB) Didn't they say that the villain on IKO was the WB human lord? I think it was when they posted the art direction notes.
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Aug 26, 2021 11:54
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He was the antagonist since he triggered the whole mess by banishing Lukka, but Lukka was the one who decided to use his powers to manipulate the Ozolith and take control over all the monsters. He then tried to destroy his home city with the monsters to show them how effective they would be at protecting it.
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Aug 26, 2021 13:29
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ilmucche posted:Maybe it can ne forgiven if they make a street fighter card called "Go home and be a family man"
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Aug 26, 2021 13:46
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:He was the antagonist since he triggered the whole mess by banishing Lukka, but Lukka was the one who decided to use his powers to manipulate the Ozolith and take control over all the monsters. He then tried to destroy his home city with the monsters to show them how effective they would be at protecting it.
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Aug 26, 2021 14:07
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I really hope streets of new capenna up and steals the art direction and design from the legend of Korra
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I hope Garruk shows up on New Capenna just because I want to see him in a fedora and pinstripe suit
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:He was the antagonist since he triggered the whole mess by banishing Lukka, but Lukka was the one who decided to use his powers to manipulate the Ozolith and take control over all the monsters. He then tried to destroy his home city with the monsters to show them how effective they would be at protecting it. I thought Oko was (probably) the unnamed "meddler" who hosed up the Ozolith?
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Aug 26, 2021 16:29
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Retcon posted:Lukka's whole story thing so far seems to be getting into a bad situation not necessarily by his own fault but then proceeding to escalate that situation until everything is hosed up. Case in point, Strixhaven. He arrived on the plane, and kept getting attacked by xenophobic natives who assumed he was part of the Oriq. After his frustration reached a boiling point, what did he do? Sought out and joined the Oriq just to spite the natives instead of just doing the sensible thing and planeswalking the gently caress out of there.
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Aug 26, 2021 17:01
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There's a disconnect between "we need our Planeswalkers to be relatable" and "they can go to another reality at will" that I don't think gets addressed (though I've only ever read story recaps). Even without the godlike powers of oldwalkers that kind of thing would warp a person.
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Aug 26, 2021 17:06
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Idc if he can talk to animals or teleport or whatever, a guy who constantly fucks everything up and everyone dislikes is very relatable.
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Aug 26, 2021 17:18
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:There's a disconnect between "we need our Planeswalkers to be relatable" and "they can go to another reality at will" that I don't think gets addressed (though I've only ever read story recaps). Even without the godlike powers of oldwalkers that kind of thing would warp a person. it's just aping the style of marvel movies where your protagonist has godlike powers but also likes to make one liner jokes about how much they love bacon
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Aug 26, 2021 17:24
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I like the “You Come To a River” style of card naming but I accept that it is a step along a road that leads to a constructed playable rare called Well That Just Happened
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Aug 26, 2021 17:52
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:There's a disconnect between "we need our Planeswalkers to be relatable" and "they can go to another reality at will" that I don't think gets addressed (though I've only ever read story recaps). Even without the godlike powers of oldwalkers that kind of thing would warp a person. Can they still planeswalk on a whim? I don’t get why Planeswalkers ever really get stuck in jams except in Eternal Sun situations where they’re stuck somewhere if you can just multidimensionally skip town whenever you want to
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Aug 26, 2021 17:55
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:I like the “You Come To a River” style of card naming but I accept that it is a step along a road that leads to a constructed playable rare called Well That Just Happened They Fly Now?! - U - Instant Stormtroopers you control gain +1/+1 and flying until end of turn. They fly now.
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Aug 26, 2021 18:07
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Mike N Eich posted:Can they still planeswalk on a whim? I don’t get why Planeswalkers ever really get stuck in jams except in Eternal Sun situations where they’re stuck somewhere if you can just multidimensionally skip town whenever you want to As I understand it, kinda? It's not effortless and if you're not going somewhere you've been already you show up somewhere completely random, not sure about anything else. Also Maro is strongly suggesting on his blog that neukamigawa is less futuristic than the teaser suggests.
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Aug 26, 2021 18:08
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The only tech advancement on Kamigawa was bottling up spirits to power the neon lights
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Aug 26, 2021 18:38
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Is chemistry the same throughout the multiverse? I see lots of blue and pink lights, but none of the distinct orange glow of neon...
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Aug 26, 2021 19:14
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I'm still holding out for a set based on David Mamet's classic, glengarry glenross, so I can tap Florida swampland to cast My Watch Costs as Much as Your Car, and Coffee is for Closers.
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Aug 26, 2021 19:38
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What's third prize at the Glengarry Glen Ross GP?
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odiv posted:What's third prize at the Glengarry Glen Ross GP? DQ and 6 month suspension
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Lone Goat posted:DQ and 6 month suspension Speaking of https://twitter.com/SaffronOlive/status/1430892333977849862?s=20 Zac Elsik comes to mind because he was a well liked local grinder who everyone always seemed to have a suspicious situation where his "mistakes" were beneficial to him. The story that tops them all were when he waited until he was facing down lethal to lose the match, to raise an issue with his opponent using double sided cards in pink dragon shields that were only 99.5% opaque. SCGCON top 8 win and in match btw. The inside story was that in that moment he was desperate, didn't even know if the sleeves were see through enough, but rolled the dice with the judge anyway and got lucky. It didn't seem to garner the pats on the back from people he told that he believed it would, so much he ended up moving out of the area after the fallout..
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I don't remember his name but I remember the week when that guy who shuffled all his opponent's lands to the top/bottom of their deck at some SCG on camera got caught and then freaked out on facebook about keyboard warriors was very funny. Also the amulet player who put the really rare turn 1 kill onto the top of his library a bunch of times during a tournament and then was surprised when he got caught. fadam fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:There's a disconnect between "we need our Planeswalkers to be relatable" and "they can go to another reality at will" that I don't think gets addressed (though I've only ever read story recaps). Even without the godlike powers of oldwalkers that kind of thing would warp a person. I mean, if all the planes are just reskinned Earth cultures we can do this ourselves by jumping on a real-world plane
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fadam posted:I don't remember his name but I remember the week that guy who shuffled all his opponent's lands to the top/bottom of their deck at some SCG on camera and then freaked out on facebook about keyboard warriors was very funny. Its the best for sure. He was also under the gun for getting caught using proxies in a local legacy even (which who cares) but got caught because he was trading other legacy proxy cards as real cards in between rounds.
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Sickening posted:Its the best for sure. He was also under the gun for getting caught using proxies in a local legacy even (which who cares) but got caught because he was trading other legacy proxy cards as real cards in between rounds. lmao goddamn what a slimeball
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I remember someone eating a DQ for being able to cut to a specific card in their deck due to the distribution of foils and non-foils. The hilarious part is it happened because the eventual DQ-eater called a judge to complain about his opponent doing it, and then to prove his point cut to a specific card in his own deck.
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Cactrot posted:I remember someone eating a DQ for being able to cut to a specific card in their deck due to the distribution of foils and non-foils. The hilarious part is it happened because the eventual DQ-eater called a judge to complain about his opponent doing it, and then to prove his point cut to a specific card in his own deck. That was Fabiano. He was also the type of scumbag who was almost completely open about it, so I almost respect him for it. I also beat him with bogles at an scg event and he was a toxic gently caress the entire way through.
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