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Batterypowered7 posted:Clearly Gandalf the Gray would be WB and Gandalf the White would be Mono-W No Gandalf the White would be R/W just due for having the Ring of Fire gifted to him by Cirdan and openly showing it off. In Gandalf the Grey he could have a red mana ability since that's the only time he mentions wielding fire against the Balrog.  As uptight as Elrond is he would be aligned Blue/White Give me a Fëanor (R/W/B) as an ultimate Voltron commander that specifically needs the Silmarils to function, and a Melkor with partner to Ungoliant who would also win with all three Silmarils. If Fëanor doesn't have all three Silmarils he causes all Elves on the battlefield to be goaded. Ooooh make getting the Silmarils like a Monarch mechanic. Jiro fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Apr 2, 2022 |
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Goddam I am already exhausted by playing against Tolkien characters in EDH.
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Man it sucks Blocs aren't a thing anymore, getting a set that's First Age, Second Age, and then Third Age would be sweet
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Batterypowered7 posted:Maybe Gandalf the Gray would be an Artifact Creature instead? Radagast the Brown 
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Jiro posted:Man it sucks Blocs aren't a thing anymore, getting a set that's First Age, Second Age, and then Third Age would be sweet War of the Spark was a block that wasn't a block. They could always do that.
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Even with the amazon show coming if they did a 3 set block for lotr it would be the 3 books or one for the hobbit and split the other two.
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TheLawinator posted:Even with the amazon show coming if they did a 3 set block for lotr it would be the 3 books or one for the hobbit and split the other two. I know, it'd be so boring  Gimme board wipes with flavor text of the war from the First Age that put an entire continent under the goddamn ocean. Gondolin as a legendary land, same with Numenor, gimme three flavors of Sauron, Melkor Lieutenant, Numenorian Death Priest/Vizier, and One Ring wielding Dark Lord. Hobbit might be an interesting set, more focus on Mirkwood, spider tribal, Necromancer that could transform, Smaug, Lake Town land, Erebor legendary land, Black Arrow legendary artifact, a One Ring that isn't crazy overpowered.
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The Hobbit could be rather good for a set of commander precons, heck could even do a variant on Archenemy with Bilbo and company being the one player side.
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I would LOVE a magic set that took place on Middle Earth, I just don’t want a Lord of the Rings set
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Can't wait for the Rick and Morty set in Summer 2023.
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Batterypowered7 posted:Can't wait for the Rick and Morty set in Summer 2023. "What is my purpose?" "You get pitched to Force of Will." "...oh my god."
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Saruman will make an awesome 5 color commander.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Lord of the Rings: created with the color pie in mind I think what he was trying to get at with some settings not working with the color pie is that wh40k as a setting is absolutely hosed and if you tried to fairly represent an overview of the setting most of the cards would have to be black. Hell even with just commander precons I am extremely dubious that they'll be able to represent stuff properly. LotR in contrast can fit the color pie just fine.
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The Shortest Path posted:I think what he was trying to get at with some settings not working with the color pie is that wh40k as a setting is absolutely hosed and if you tried to fairly represent an overview of the setting most of the cards would have to be black. Yeah, 40k is a setting where I can see a lot of Elish Norn style white, Nahiri style Boros, and Ayli style Orzhov alongside the easy black, red, and Dimir, and maybe Tzeentch followers would be mono-blue or Simic? I'll be dipped if I can think of anything mono-green... Then again, if we're going by the logic they used for the Street Fighter SL and the D&D dragons, Ultramarines will be blue, Blood Angels red, Dark Angels green, Space Wolves Azorius, White Scars white, Iron Hands black, Salamanders green...
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Framboise posted:"What is my purpose?" "I just kept playing lands and saying go and it kept working!"
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One of my paper cEDH players has a Rograhk//Silas Deck that he affectionally calls Rick n Morty, and my BFF Chaz has a Bruce/Kamahl list that is crazy strong and after the first game I called it “Hobbes & Shaw”
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Framboise posted:"What is my purpose?" lol
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Toph Bei Fong posted:Yeah, 40k is a setting where I can see a lot of Elish Norn style white, Nahiri style Boros, and Ayli style Orzhov alongside the easy black, red, and Dimir, and maybe Tzeentch followers would be mono-blue or Simic? I'll be dipped if I can think of anything mono-green... Papa Nurgle is the god of decay but also renewal. He’s clearly Green.
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TotalHell posted:Papa Nurgle is the god of decay but also renewal. He’s clearly Green. He's green/black. Nurgle is pretty much the epitome of Golgari the same way Khorne and Slaanesh are slightly different flavors of Rakdos and Tzeentch is Dimir. That's the thing, all of the colors get represented pretty broadly, but mostly in a pair with black. You could totally design a set that way but it would be weird.
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Batterypowered7 posted:Can't wait for the Rick and Morty set in Summer 2023. When do they finally get to the point of them doing cards based on literal sponsors like: Skillshare Sorcery U You draw 2 cards. Target opponent draws 1. Audible Instant G Target creature you control gains vigilance until end of turn. Blue Apron Artifact - Equipment 6 At the beginning of your upkeep, if this is equipped, create two food tokens. Equip 5 Squarespace Land 1, Tap: Put a storage counter on this land. Put the hyperlinks on the cardboard you cowards.
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Magnetic North posted:When do they finally get to the point of them doing cards based on literal sponsors like: Why would you bring this evil into the world!
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Magnetic North posted:When do they finally get to the point of them doing cards based on literal sponsors like: What would the NordVPN and Raid Shadow Legends cards do?
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Hexproof and players sacrifice things respectively
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The Shortest Path posted:That's the thing, all of the colors get represented pretty broadly, but mostly in a pair with black. You could totally design a set that way but it would be weird. Totally. I think you’d want to start from that framework, then remove black from almost everything and just accept that most of the fluff has a black bend to it. So tyranids would be mono-G, splash of Gruul? Eldar would be Izzet? Guard feel very Orzhov but could be Boros or just mono-W. Space marines are probably Mardu, they’re just space knights. Maybe leave the chaos gods that are clearly about sacrificing for power with the black mix? So Nurgle is golgari.
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Batterypowered7 posted:Raid Shadow Legends It would obviously be a legend with Raid and Shadow.
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Arcturas posted:Totally. I think you’d want to start from that framework, then remove black from almost everything and just accept that most of the fluff has a black bend to it. So tyranids would be mono-G, splash of Gruul? Eldar would be Izzet? Guard feel very Orzhov but could be Boros or just mono-W. Space marines are probably Mardu, they’re just space knights. Tyranids are Simic. Psychic bugs that are constantly mutating and evolving.
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One of the reasons I was never able to vibe with warhammer 40K was that there appeared to be like dozens of seemingly identical “Space Marines in power armor” factions but all of them are different colors and have different lore and abilities, but even with my limited understanding it seems like you could easily find human factions across all 5 colors of mana.
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There's a lot of 'black = evil' assumption going on above I think, Black is ambition and personal power. The Imperium (like half the factions) is White as gently caress, Order and Loyalty (on pain of death) is the main thing.
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On a societal scale, all of the factions are immensely ambitious, selfish, etc. It's a many-pronged war of total dominance and extermination. Black is pragmatic, black throws the weak into the grinder to fuel the strong, black does anything and everything to win regardless of cost. The imperium includes the other four colors to various degrees, especially white, but at its core it is as black as old Phyrexia and so are its leaders.
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I think I'd do Tau as white, Imperium as Black, Necrons as Blue, Orks as Red and Eldar as green. Chaos fits in at every color except white, and Tyranids are sliver-style 5 color tribal. Then there's plenty of room for off-color imperial cards like blue mechanicus cards, red repentia cards, white imperial guard, green catachans, etc etc Ignite Memories fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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Ignite Memories posted:Orks as Red  Oi, orkz is green! Green is best! Also, didn't the Eldar gently caress a chaos god into being? That sounds red to me.
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Magnetic North posted:
Eldar hosed a chaos god into being so now they're hideous prudes. Dark Eldar are the guys who want to keep loving so they kidnap people and sacrifice them to the god they hosed into being so it won't eat their souls instead.
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Well technically I think this setting's Orks are very firmly in Temur territory, but if I try to do a cycle of wedges there's only 3 that really work (mardu imperium, jeskai tau are the other two)
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Ignite Memories posted:Well technically I think this setting's Orks are very firmly in Temur territory, but if I try to do a cycle of wedges there's only 3 that really work (mardu imperium, jeskai tau are the other two) Sultai dark eldar? Abzan eldar?
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Yea those are the closest, they're not horrible but they don't feel quite right to me
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https://youtu.be/efpPygoqb9M I absolutely love this horrifically beat up EDH deck and the meanings behind them. Rhystic Studies is such a chill watch
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Batterypowered7 posted:What would the NordVPN and Raid Shadow Legends cards do?
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Jiro posted:https://youtu.be/efpPygoqb9M He’s seriously making the highest quality content related to MtG, I don’t think it’s close. The only content I will plop down on my couch and watch like a show. This episode really got me thinking about my water damaged Skithiryx that lives, retired and undefeated, in my binder. I will instruct my offspring or apostles to bury me with them.
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Gonna have my final wishes to be buried with an old beat up Animate Dead card in my jacket pocket.........just in case. 
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In stupider news, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tolarian/the-academic-133-xl/posts/3473374 Someone tried to game the voting system on prof's deckbox to get a white variant instead of bathroom tile teal.
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