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She definitely didn't have those Norn-style chest plates before. I'm hoping she got put in line by force rather than simply seeing the way the wind was blowing. Because villainous infighting is fun!
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dragon enthusiast posted:Both "Sunlit Marsh" and "Molten Tributary" sound like enemy paired duals, but "Radiant Grove" sounds like a GW land, so maybe there's going to be all 10 combinations in the set? yeah that's what I figured. I wonder what the gimmick will be this time my guess is etb untapped versions of the bounce lands, except you have to return a typed land to hand. e.g. "Sunlit Marsh - Land - When ~ etb's, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Plains or Swamp you control to its owner's hand. - Add WB." Like Karoo, but it's a typeless dual land
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I've been playing a bunch of MTG Arena and it's got me jonesing to play paper magic again after not having owned any cards since I was a kid. I've got some RL friends looking to start back up too and we can all set our money on fire during game night. My paper collection was lost to time so I'm back to square 1. What's the best way to hop in? The starter kit is only $10 and seems a halfway decent way to get the ball rolling. Or maybe talk my buds into some draft boosters? Also are there any "shitload of lands/tokens" collections or just make some stand-ins from whatever?
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Horace Kinch posted:I've been playing a bunch of MTG Arena and it's got me jonesing to play paper magic again after not having owned any cards since I was a kid. I've got some RL friends looking to start back up too and we can all set our money on fire during game night. My paper collection was lost to time so I'm back to square 1. What's the best way to hop in? The starter kit is only $10 and seems a halfway decent way to get the ball rolling. Or maybe talk my buds into some draft boosters? Also are there any "shitload of lands/tokens" collections or just make some stand-ins from whatever? It depends what you and your friends plan to do: If you plan to just play against eachother I would recomoend buying a box of CL2 draft boosters. Let tat be your gateway into EDH and work from there. If you plan to go to your LGS and play in FNMs and weeklies, then find out what formats your LGS plays before: Either drafting a standard collection targeting a non-rotating deck (pioneer, modern, ect) CL2 (Battle for Baulder's gate, make sure you get the draft boosters and not the set boosters) is still relatively cheap (the set kinda sucked, but the draft-commander experience is supposed to be pretty good I'm told) and since you're only ever playing against each other, it'll be ok that the cards you'll own aren't the best ones. You're never going to play against a Full Power Feldon of the Third Path uberCombtacular. SO you and 3 friends can get a good start for about 130+shipping. Alternitively building for 60 cards requires a different in-row. the CL2 cards will only be playable in Legacy, where they're pretty bad (except my boy Sailors' Bane). SO you'll need actual cards and those cost money and are rarely in starter kits. There you either buy the 75 cards that interest you the most for the format you'll play and that gets real expensive real fast. Which is why you should use the standard pipeline of: Draft most current set -> use draft acquisitions to build a standard deck -> use the cards that rotated out to build a pioneer deck -> modern -> legacy -> therapy. (skip vintage) HootTheOwl fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Aug 17, 2022 |
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 Ok lol I guess I was wrong, looks like the "legend people have been asking for" probably is Gix
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Horace Kinch posted:I've been playing a bunch of MTG Arena and it's got me jonesing to play paper magic again after not having owned any cards since I was a kid. I've got some RL friends looking to start back up too and we can all set our money on fire during game night. My paper collection was lost to time so I'm back to square 1. What's the best way to hop in? The starter kit is only $10 and seems a halfway decent way to get the ball rolling. Or maybe talk my buds into some draft boosters? Also are there any "shitload of lands/tokens" collections or just make some stand-ins from whatever? another option to look into, if it's just you and your friends, is tabletop simulator. it's $15 last I checked, and you can have all the fun of playing magic without having to buy into it. you just load the cards into the game and you can play with them as if you were playing at the kitchen table, except virtually
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kalel posted:another option to look into, if it's just you and your friends, is tabletop simulator. it's $15 last I checked, and you can have all the fun of playing magic without having to buy into it. you just load the cards into the game and you can play with them as if you were playing at the kitchen table, except virtually cockatrice is free if digital is what they want to do
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Playing at a kitchen table and making the losers do a shot is our goal, so we're pretty committed to paper.
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Horace Kinch posted:Playing at a kitchen table and making the losers do a shot is our goal, so we're pretty committed to paper. I stand by commander then; It's a high variance format (since it's singleton) but also TCC advertises those 10 dollar theme decks that you might want if you're comitted to 60 cards.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C74ssC2Y1Do In where Spice8Rack tries to play a deck that was randomly generated by A.I.
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/shards-nightmares-2022-08-17 Well gently caress.
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the Orb of Zot posted:Urza is rolling in his grave Doubtful unless he can pay 5 generic mana
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MonsieurChoc posted:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/shards-nightmares-2022-08-17 ngl i don't usually read the mtg story posts but both the main one and the side stories have been good this time around. lots of poo poo happening, all at once maybe it's just that the stakes are so high and we're back to characters i'm familiar with?
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Aug 17, 2022 18:56
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It's weird that one talks about 'years' worth of phyrexian invasion. Are they just jumping all over the place?
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MonsieurChoc posted:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/shards-nightmares-2022-08-17 Reminds me of that time in the Harry Potter books where Ron treats his dad's car like poo poo, it gains sentience and kicks their asses out of itself, while driving itself into the forest nearby never to be heard from again.
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So they put Phyrexian poo poo on the Weatherlight as camouflage but it ended up becoming Phyrexian for real? Did I read that right
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Pablo Nergigante posted:So they put Phyrexian poo poo on the Weatherlight as camouflage but it ended up becoming Phyrexian for real? Did I read that right Yes. It turns out this corrosive oil that poisoned and corrupted an entire plane is bad actually. In the worldbuilding vid they played this up as a long term goal of the Phyrexians but, nope.
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Aug 17, 2022 20:36
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HootTheOwl posted:Yes. It turns out this corrosive oil that poisoned and corrupted an entire plane is bad actually. *Pours corrupting nanomachine oil all over the deck of ship* There's no way this is a bad idea
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How did the Phyrexian Oil come into existence in the first place? Was this Yawgmoth's like ultimate creation or something?
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Jiro posted:How did the Phyrexian Oil come into existence in the first place? Was this Yawgmoth's like ultimate creation or something? Yeah, Yawgmoth made it after remaking Phyrexia, it's oil that he dumped a bunch of Thran powestones into to make an essential oil that can do anything. as long as anything is Phyrexian horrors
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I wasn't super into Magic lore earlier on so I went to the wikipedia to read about the Nine Titans after seeing that image and it just sounds so stupid. Aha, Mr. Szat, I needed moral justification to kill you to power a super weapon to stop a murderous plane bent on assimilating the universe so I let you kill two other planeswalkers first. What the gently caress? And then when he actually can destroy the plane he's just like nope too much interesting stuff here? The guy who has devoted his millennia long existence to wiping them out? Bizarre stuff.
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mikeraskol posted:I wasn't super into Magic lore earlier on so I went to the wikipedia to read about the Nine Titans after seeing that image and it just sounds so stupid. Urza is an antihero. His selfishness has destroyed Dominaria, past present and future
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mikeraskol posted:I wasn't super into Magic lore earlier on so I went to the wikipedia to read about the Nine Titans after seeing that image and it just sounds so stupid. Urza wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he was a big big believer in being mad at stuff and blowing poo poo up drat the consequences. A true American.
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Even then that final turn doesn't sit right with me, since this is the guy obsessed with stopping Phyrexia for millenias. But ah well, that whole saga was a fun ride anyway.
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Jiro posted:Urza wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, He was lookin kinda dumb with his finger and his thumb in the shape of a  on his forehead
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Pablo Nergigante posted:He was lookin kinda dumb with his finger and his thumb in the shape of a lmao
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flatluigi posted:ngl i don't usually read the mtg story posts but both the main one and the side stories have been good this time around. lots of poo poo happening, all at once as it turns out doing worldbuilding to you know build a world instead of propping up a theme park attraction lends itself to good storytelling
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dragon enthusiast posted:as it turns out doing worldbuilding to you know build a world instead of propping up a theme park attraction lends itself to good storytelling Yeah, I think this is the most I've cared about Magic's story since, like, the Khans of Tarkir era A large portion of which is fueled by "Hey, that character I remember offhandedly from when I was in 8th grade! What's that crazy rascal been up to sinc-- Oh no. Oh no!"
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Jiro posted:Urza wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he was a big big believer in being mad at stuff and blowing poo poo up drat the consequences. A true American. Urza was written as like 20 shades of crazy and catatonically depressed. After he invades Phyrexia for the first time and gets Yawgmothed to near death, he flees to Serra's realm and she heals him up for ages during which the Phyrexians figure out how to follow him and completely destroy Serra's realm, womp womp. After that Urza returns to dominaria and is useless leading to his pet Phyrexian having her boyfriend pretend to be Mishra to motivate him enough to kill a bunch of Phyrexian infiltrators. Then they die killing Gix and that motivates Urza enough to gently caress around with Time college and then that blows up too and then it's time for eugenics and super weapons.
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mikeraskol posted:I wasn't super into Magic lore earlier on so I went to the wikipedia to read about the Nine Titans after seeing that image and it just sounds so stupid. It's obviously totally ludicrous but as a kid reading it I got all excited because it brought back a bunch of obscure little known planeswalkers from earlier sets (to unceremoniously kill them) and Tevesh Szat is just a gleeful bastard. Also...Commander Guff or something? That old guy who kinda broke the 4th wall a bunch of the time? it was fun. Plus they were in cool looking mech suits. Invasion was fun, except Apocalypse was kind of a wet fart of an ending. This reminds me, it would be cool to have a set take place in the time of the Thran
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A Thran-era set would be dope and would give an excuse to reprint Yawgmoth Thran Physician into standard 
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Congratulations to MTG for existing long enough to generate its own nostalgia, makes it much easier to rake in those nostalgia bucks off the thing from decades ago that many people were sick of at the time. It's like that old quote about the flaws in a medium (VHS tracking, record needle hiss, etc) being what people are fondest of. Hell I'm not above it either, I loved all the references in Time Spiral and hope the Braids card is cool, gimme da slop please.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:A Thran-era set would be dope and would give an excuse to reprint Yawgmoth Thran Physician into standard wtf did your avatar always cycle
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MonsieurChoc posted:Even then that final turn doesn't sit right with me, since this is the guy obsessed with stopping Phyrexia for millenias. But ah well, that whole saga was a fun ride anyway. He was pretty insane and detached from humanity at that point, and then Yawgmoth trolled him into completely giving in to his obsession with the "perfection" of machines. Kind of far-fetched but still a pretty good story.
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mandatory lesbian posted:Theres an mtg theme park? Its a critique of the one-and-done planar visits. We basically don't spend any time there so everything we know about the plane is reduced to a theme park. The city of New Capenna is some mobster world theme park. Kaladesh is Epcot Magic: The Subcontinent, ect ect. Meanwhile dominria, is a fully fleshed out world because it's the only one that's basically an Erath.
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Yeah it was one of those storytelling devices that could have totally worked if it had just been established a little better in the narrative. If you actually read the novelizations, it flows well enough to not come across completely stupid, but it ain't great
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:wtf did your avatar always cycle It’s been that way for months
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