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Leperflesh posted:There's quite a lot of Portal Three Kingdoms cards in the top 20 on that list. Is that just due to rarity of the print run, because most of these do not look like particularly good cards to me, even at common. Yes, Portal 3 Kingdoms was aimed at the Asian market, and the English version was only sold in Australia, so the amount of it floating around is pretty minimal.
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quote:I sent in a mickey mantle card for PSA to grade, and it was in pretty nice condition except for one thing Wow! Does that mean the card is just in "damaged" condition or something, I would have thought the grading system was specifically scaled to account for that kind of minor blemish? Is there "0" still some standard to them? That's exactly what I was worried about, that their prestige or standards would make them just not want their name on it at all. Won't send biohazard, but the card being obviously creased or straight up crumbled was part of the plan and if they're turning nose up at a little wrinkle, comedy-damage is definitely gonna be a bridge too far. The big honkin' zero is always part of it when he's brought it up before. I guess an "authentic" shell is better than nothing. PlasticAutomaton posted:Nahiri's story continues to be sacrifice everything for the multiverse and get relentlessly poo poo on as repayment. I read the first two ONE stories and she seems pretty badass. She's also the gal on that card that's, I think her sitting with swords swirling around her, can't remember it's name or effect but it's a good card I put it in something recently. I tried reading BRO story but didn't get into it, lotta references I wasn't around for. This is my first time actually trying to follow along with the art and story and I dig it. Seeing her Compleated version actually has some context for me now which makes it more than, okay, cool character with cool lighting. Hoping she does more than just screw everynoe over when she gets compleated, I get her reasoning if they truly need her power... but are they going to even get to use it before she goes all greasy? I'm excited to see how it all pans out, even having many of the cards spoiled. Will be fun to see how Lukka decides to connect his navi braid to a phyrexian and gently caress his life up.
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Charity Porno posted:Like, the wrestler? Yup. They released the list of who will be previewing cards on what day, and Danhausen is in there (links to his Twitter account).
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Khanstant posted:She's also the gal on that card that's, I think her sitting with swords swirling around her, can't remember it's name or effect but it's a good card I put it in something recently. Now I just want to know, what's the best card with a planeswalker in the art? Whoever it is should then be the best planeswalker. edit: It's probably like Karn or Oko long-ass nips Diane fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jan 14, 2023 |
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PlasticAutomaton posted:Nahiri's story continues to be sacrifice everything for the multiverse and get relentlessly poo poo on as repayment. ??? didn't she deliberately bait Emrakul to innistrad so she could gently caress the plane over as a middle finger to Sorin, and then lock him inside of a rock for several years?
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Judgy Fucker posted:gently caress me, Snuff Out is I have spent a decade hollerin' at the EDH thread that snuff out was a quarter and better than 90% of removal that people were paying mana for and to pick up 10 for all their decks. Just lmao.
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? I probably gave away at least 20 of those in my box o' commons and uncommons to an LGS when I was in high school and getting rid of my cards
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Now I just want to know, what's the best card with a planeswalker in the art? Whoever it is should then be the best planeswalker. From the Vault: Exiled has a version of Tinker with Tezzeret in the art
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Snuff Out looks awesome, woulda grabbed some for a quarter had I known and been playing back then lol
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Kashuno posted:Dang they’re putting planeswalkers in SMITE https://twitter.com/smitegame/status/1613980721407995910?s=46&t=JNpBbTyG745_6RsZ80eZJQ Messed up that they're doing this but not re-running the MTG collab in PAD.
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Toshimo posted:I have spent a decade hollerin' at the EDH thread that snuff out was a quarter and better than 90% of removal that people were paying mana for and to pick up 10 for all their decks. Just lmao. It’s an amusing case study in how card evaluation has changed over the years, to be sure. Players in 2000 didn’t understand how powerful free spells were (unless it was Force of Will)
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Reading a summary of the magic story around Nahari and this seems kinda dumb. She knew she would become a weapon of the enemy and decided to just let that happen? Boo. It's not quite that bad. Melira says she's infected and then tells her purging the infection would put her out of action for days or weeks. quote:"We don't have that kind of time," said Nahiri. And Nahiri is the most powerful one there (being thousands of years old and all), so they decide the chances of success are low enough without her that it's better to bring her along, get the job done and then heal her afterwards. Kind of a calculated risk.
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I didn't even think about It, but Nahiri first +1 protects her from target creature attack, right?
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Honestly, I just like her as a 4 drop resurrecting a 5 drop and sticks around for future value. That's pretty good for R/W.
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Jan 14, 2023 03:01
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FTR: she only gets a 4cmc card with 5 loyalty.
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Khanstant posted:She's also the gal on that card that's, I think her sitting with swords swirling around her, can't remember it's name or effect but it's a good card I put it in something recently. Nahiri's Wrath maybe? https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=414436
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resistentialism posted:FTR: she only gets a 4cmc card with 5 loyalty. Oh, right. Derp. Also, it doesn't stick around. So....I retract my statement. 
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Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:??? didn't she deliberately bait Emrakul to innistrad so she could gently caress the plane over as a middle finger to Sorin, and then lock him inside of a rock for several years? To be fair Sorin locked her in a rock with nothing but vengeful demons for several hundred years for the crime of asking him to take responsibility and fix the prison containing the Eldrazi.
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Nahiri works pretty reasonably with T2 bloodtithe harvester into T3 nahiri. Kill their llanowar elf, copy the harvester from your graveyard, kill their old growth troll. Blood tokens left over.
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PlasticAutomaton posted:To be fair Sorin locked her in a rock with nothing but vengeful demons for several hundred years for the crime of asking him to take responsibility and fix the prison containing the Eldrazi. Yeah that's pretty lovely but doesn't justify attempted omnicide(?) imo, and the story treating her as anything but a monster afterwards is weird as hell to me
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Played a Dominaria Remastered draft in my LGS tonight. Went 3-0 with Rakdos Goblins. My draft was a little all over the place until pack 2 card 2 when someone passed me a borderless Siege-Gang Commander. And at that point I already had a borderless Flametongue Kavu, so i shrugged and said guess it’s Goblins time.
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Judgy Fucker posted:It’s an amusing case study in how card evaluation has changed over the years, to be sure. Players in 2000 didn’t understand how powerful free spells were (unless it was Force of Will) Snuff out saw play then and was very good? Same for the pitch counters.
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Snuff Out has always been good in pauper, especially during the Drake era. It not being popular in commander for a long time probably has more to do with commander players generally preferring to lose to other players comboing off, instead of lowering themselves to play spot removal to disrupt that sort of thing.
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Jabor posted:Snuff Out has always been good in pauper, especially during the Drake era. I'm sure it's this and not that it's not even in the top 10 black removal cards
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Charity Porno posted:I'm sure it's this and not that it's not even in the top 10 black removal cards I strongly disagree with this, being free makes it extremely powerful imo.
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DMR Draft tonight was fun and holy moly, we had 3 whole pods and they went for 5 rounds. Never had that many folks there before since I started, some weeks barely enough to happen at all. I skipped the last round, was hungry and it was hot in there. I won 2, lost 2, but every game was really close and went 2-1. Definitely the best I'd done in a draft so far and the deck had some fun plays now and then. Don't usually play blue, but went blue/black and learned a lot. I drafted Opposition and Turnabout but never actually got to use them that well, I have very bad control instincts and knowledge and skill lol. I won with it once, where I tapped my way to whittling opponent down with slight board advantage. Another game though I made a lot of blocking trades or took damage, just not even thinking I could just tap the danger away. Or that I could be mana fudging them, or tapping their artifacts on their turn. There's gotta be a proverb about giving someone a powerful weapon they don't understand well enough to use properly. Regenerate also did not work how I initially expected(even though it said it in the part of the card I was glossing over), learned that after blocking with it to deal 1 damage, regenerate to keep it alive, then cast a -1/-1 and kill the creature. Whoops! My favourite loss was an early game and a good lesson on not conceding early like I tend to do, bad arena habit to have in paper where games matter. My opponent had no board for most of the game and had mostly ramp and cycling and graveyard stuff with nothing to do with and I was just movin along until I won started wondering why she didn't concede, and then got sloppy and didn't leave a blocker since I'd finish her next turn and she got some great draws and turned all her lands into 1/1s and then fed them all to her one creature who went from 1/1 or 2/2 into a 12/12, which was enough to kill me because I had dealt enough self-damage early on with some 4/4 freak who hurts me equal to damage it deals. Oh actually, there was a turn where we had a laugh when she played this card to nullify 2 damage, which bought her that turn that won. That same Fleshreaver 4/4 won some other games, so it was a fun card and I kinda like that bleeding-out early aggro or advantage play. My favourite game of the night was one where my opponent and I both Cackling Fiend'd each other after I had been Duress'd twice, and I had cast Duress & Recoil on them. Usually topdecking isn't the most fun phase of a game but for it to be that early after we both aggressively mulched each other's hands while also burning through our own, it was just comical, and to top it off I used Wormfang Drake or Faceless Butcher to exile my Cackling Fiend and they killed it and forgot about the return-from-exile thing and was briefly deeply let down by the misfortune before realizing they were empty-handed anyway. I lost this game by asking them why they weren't target my face with their lightning spell instead of my manowar instead, I don't know if I would have won if I didn't say anything, but I definitely would not have lost that specific turn lol. I think Duress would be a better card if you could target yourself with it, even if it meant revealing your hand because more than once I had Arcanus, the Omnipotent in hand a card I couldn't pay for yet, but if I could Duress myself and discard it, I could Death it to the battle field. Just realized I had an Entomb too that I took out after a loss b/c they had some graveyard exiling poo poo going on and didn't put back in afterwards. I should play blue more often in drafts, have to know the rules and make better decisions to not gently caress myself. Too often I make draft decks that are cool monsters I can play and some stuff to kill the monsters in my way, and not as well as I would if I built some better habits and thinking poo poo through, maybe slow down a lil.
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Jobert posted:Nahiri's Wrath maybe? I was thinking of Stoneforge Mystic, which doesn't feature Nahiri, but Nahiri was based on Stoneforge Mystic to the point I assume the artist thought that's who they were painting, but in lore the Stoneforge Mystic is explicitly not Nahiri. Doing some extra reading, have some lore questions from Nahiri's wiki page: quote:The Three decided to force the Eldrazi into physical form and trap them on a plane, sacrificing that plane for the well-being of the Multiverse.[1] They searched for a plane with lush ecosystems and uniquely dynamic mana—a powerful lure for the Eldrazi's insatiable hunger. Wanting to start their work immediately, the three decided upon Zendikar. So, they were looking, by planeswalking to random places I guess, but got impatient and decided instead to just sacrifice Nahiri's home plane since they already knew about it and just wanted to start ASAP? I guess being stone cold pragmatic is part of her deal. Nahiri, Sorin, and Ugin seal away the Eldrazi, yay cool. Afterwards Nahiri is doing guardianship stuff on Zendikar. quote:Nahiri stayed and lived happily among her people for a long time. The wild mana of Zendikar lured other beings to the plane as well, and Nahiri took it upon herself to protect Zendikar from those who would cause it harm. I thought traversing planes was a big deal, only planeswalkers can do it and it's not trivial to do, with a handful of exceptions, rare portals, and rude phyrexian tricks, but by and large, normal beings can't decide to go to another plane. So where the heck are these other folks and things coming from -- is switching planes one of those super hard and rare things to do, except they also do it with whatever whenever they need some conflict or revisit a tribe? edit: wotc needs to get their web poo poo together, keep clicking articles to lore that's not there anymore.
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We had a pretty healthy turnout for DMR here too, better than expected. I went 2-1 with a durdly UBr deck. I got carried away drafting basics over bad cards and forgot to account for the 3 cycling lands I'd picked, so I had to run some very bad cards to make playables. That definitely took me back to when I first started drafting during the Urza & Masques blocks. I'd like to do one or two more but I'm not sure if the LGS is going to run another. I really like the boomer basics, and I got an extra dose of nostalgia opening Birds of Paradise and Wrath of God in my prize packs.
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Khanstant posted:I thought traversing planes was a big deal, only planeswalkers can do it and it's not trivial to do, with a handful of exceptions, rare portals, and rude phyrexian tricks, but by and large, normal beings can't decide to go to another plane. So where the heck are these other folks and things coming from -- is switching planes one of those super hard and rare things to do, except they also do it with whatever whenever they need some conflict or revisit a tribe? There are extraplanar beings, most notably the eldrazi
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Khanstant posted:So where the heck are these other folks and things coming from uh what
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It's just a little comment they threw in, since the same commander set that introduced Nahiri had Ob Nixilis in his human planeswalker form from when he was trying to exploit Zendikar. The other two were Teferi and Lord Windgrace as a and I think there was something they were fighting over too.
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Went to a DMR draft yesterday as well. It was the first time I'd drafted in a store since like 2002. I've done a prerelease at GenCon and some home events, but that's all. Tried to go rakdos goblins, but failed to get enough good gobbos together. A few Dralnu's Crusades early on had convinced me this was a good idea, and sealed my fate. The guy that ended up winning the draft was directly across from me, snapping up all the good red goblin cards, as I would find out when he trounced me repeatedly with Pashalik Mons. Fortunately, I got ahold of a pair of sneak attacks at the beginning of pack two, and started drafting any and all big creatures with enter/exit/dies abilities, in the hope of shifting my deck over to a CHEAT IT ALL OUT strategy. Got smoked game one, but games two and three I got Sneak Attack onto the table early with the help of Nightscape Familiar. Phantom Nishoba put some work in here, alongside Vexing Sphinx and Aven Fateshaper. Then I'd cast Urborg Uprising and throw them at my opponent again. It was brutal. Nightscape Familiar was definitely mvp, making spells cheap and shrugging off juggernaut hits left and right. I really wanna draft this set again, and already bought my own box.
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Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:Yeah that's pretty lovely but doesn't justify attempted omnicide(?) imo, and the story treating her as anything but a monster afterwards is weird as hell to me And don't forget her little racial superiority stunt in ZNR, Nahiri sucks
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It's just a little comment they threw in, since the same commander set that introduced Nahiri had Ob Nixilis in his human planeswalker form from when he was trying to exploit Zendikar. Oh, okay, I took it broader than it actually was, like random creatures and vampires and poo poo were showing up without explanation. Silhouette posted:And don't forget her little racial superiority stunt in ZNR, Nahiri sucks The wiki didn't mention this and can't see the real stories currently, it does say Nahiri and an elf got into a spat when the elf lied to and betrayed Nahiri when she was trying to fix up the planet and seal away the eldrazi again, and instead loosened the Eldrazi prison and made the planet all crumbletown.
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Goa Tse-tung posted:kinda funny, of all the ten possible PW the three black aligned ones did not get compleated Vraska is confirmed as compleated, I'm pretty sure. Jace, Nissa, Nahiri, Lukka, and Vraska. Plus Tibalt is hanging around.
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https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1614321702623666177 https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1614321453486276611 Feel a little meh on both but Vraska’s -2 is something. Too bad about her cost.
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Lmao Vraska, Thief of Crowns Edit: I mean she's basically a fixed Oko, if her second ability was a + then she'd be a problem
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