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Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

Huxley posted:

This was fantastic, thank you

The restored rolex of the daughter is something you need to curl up with a good beverage for. The mans passion was wasted on magic.

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AngryBooch
Sep 26, 2009
This does a whole lot for one white:



whydirt posted:

Saw someone mention that Battle may not necessarily be in a Standard set and might be part of the upcoming LoTR set, at least for its debut.

It’s an intriguing theory at least

I think it will feature in both March of the Machines and the LotR set. Big battles are associated with LotR while the main story is leading to some very large multiversal clashes as well.

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L

born on a buy you posted:

Have you ever had a job that was responding to an emergency? Reacting and not planning is the expectation not the exception.

Even when responding to an emergency you have your bread and butter protocol and then a few other things to try once you're at the scene. just weird to me that a bunch of magical wizards didn't use their brains at all during that adventure, so much so that some even comically fell prey to the robot overlords due to their stupidity.

Tom Clancy is Dead
Jul 13, 2011

Mondrak + Vesuvan Duplimancy
1 spell: 3 Mondraks
2 spells: 11 Mondraks
3 spells: 2059 Mondraks
4 spells: ~6.6x10^619 Mondraks, more Mondraks than atoms in the universe

Scute Swarm eat your heart out

Tom Clancy is Dead fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Jan 19, 2023

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

Khanstant posted:

Apparently even in the worst Phyrexians can do, people can manage to survive on it without becoming compleated.

Only in Urabrask's bit because he likes them around to annoy Elesh Norn

Katana Gomai
Jan 14, 2007

"Thus," concluded Miyamoto, "you must give up everything you have to be my disciple."

whydirt posted:

The RW equipment tribal card is just the archetype signpost for limited, where it’s something that can work especially when a lot of the equipment come attached to bodies.

I really wish they'd stop trying to to make Boros equipment a thing. It consistently fails in limited.

Cactrot
Jan 11, 2001

Go Go Cactus Galactus





Whatever battles are, I just hope they live in the main deck/sideboard and don't require any additional materials from outside the game.

Kashuno
Oct 9, 2012

Where the hell is my SWORD?
Grimey Drawer

Cactrot posted:

Whatever battles are, I just hope they live in the main deck/sideboard and don't require any additional materials from outside the game.

they have to be a regular card for deck building because new Atraxa pulls them from your library

e; although they could still require out of game components I guess like day/night or dungeons

Lord_Magmar
Feb 24, 2015

"Welcome to pound town, Slifer slacker!"


I honestly think they'll be one at a time game modifications. Playable emblems but you replave your previous one when you play a new one.

Like yugioh field spells.

generatrix
Aug 8, 2008

Nothing hurts like a scrape

Cactrot posted:

Whatever battles are, I just hope they live in the main deck/sideboard and don't require any additional materials from outside the game.

If they do end up being the back-and-forth scale that has effects on the rest of the board... card templating similar to sagas could work. Would just need a counter of some kind to mark the current position. Something between sagas and dungeons could be done on a normal card without requiring extra stuff.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Lord_Magmar posted:

I honestly think they'll be one at a time game modifications. Playable emblems but you replave your previous one when you play a new one.

Like yugioh field spells.

oh goody.

Currents didn't break NetRunner or anything.

neaden
Nov 4, 2012

A changer of ways

Lord_Magmar posted:

I honestly think they'll be one at a time game modifications. Playable emblems but you replave your previous one when you play a new one.

Like yugioh field spells.

So World Enchantments?

Toph Bei Fong
Feb 29, 2008



Watch it turn out to be like companions, but they're like enchantments rather than creatures...

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Only in Urabrask's bit because he likes them around to annoy Elesh Norn

Right, but the Phyrexians are always going to have that squabbling-demonlord type relationship, they're a garbage collective with less unity and cohesion than a little league soccer team full of kids who don't wanna play or be there

Serf
May 5, 2011


Back in my day all Phyrexians bent to Yawgmoth's Will.

jassi007
Aug 9, 2006

mmmmm.. burger...

Sickening posted:

In case you like hearing marshal's voice but none of the MTG content is tickling your fancy anymore.

He is legit killing it on youtube doing old watch restorations. He i getting huge views.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD80T1s2Za4K682CQDGwEKQ

I love his channel. He could stand to mix it up a little more, idk but there are certain things that he says/does in almost every video that makes them a little samey, but they are great content.

mycomancy
Oct 16, 2016

Serf posted:

Back in my day all Phyrexians bent to Yawgmoth's Will.

YggdrasilTM
Nov 7, 2011

Back in my day I had a fully bent Yawgmoth's Will.

jassi007
Aug 9, 2006

mmmmm.. burger...

YggdrasilTM posted:

Back in my day I had a fully bent Yawgmoth's Will.

Sounds painful. Like a bent wookie.

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.
So toxic just infect if it were bad?

AngryBooch
Sep 26, 2009

Sickening posted:

So toxic just infect if it were bad?

Toxic seems better vs players and worse vs creatures.



This guy for instance. You may be able to drop some toughness in front of it to minimize the damage to your life total, but you better be sure you're not hit three times by these things because even 1 trample damage is going to give you 4 poison counters.

studio mujahideen
May 3, 2005

its just a cleaner rule overall imo. good change

Pseudoscorpion
Jul 26, 2011


AngryBooch posted:

Toxic seems better vs players and worse vs creatures.



This guy for instance. You may be able to drop some toughness in front of it to minimize the damage to your life total, but you better be sure you're not hit three times by these things because even 1 trample damage is going to give you 4 poison counters.

Toxic really only makes sense in this specific context with trampling creatures where the poison is all-or-nothing, unlike normal damage. On 99% of creatures it might as well read 'deal $POWER or $TOXIC * 2 damage, whichever is higher', since high-toxic low-power creatures are going to be going for a poison win and high-power low-toxic creatures will be going for a normal damage win.

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Aug 2, 2021

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Pseudoscorpion posted:

Toxic really only makes sense in this specific context with trampling creatures where the poison is all-or-nothing, unlike normal damage. On 99% of creatures it might as well read 'deal $POWER or $TOXIC * 2 damage, whichever is higher', since high-toxic low-power creatures are going to be going for a poison win and high-power low-toxic creatures will be going for a normal damage win.

Not necessarily, Corrupted is also in play

AngryBooch
Sep 26, 2009

Pseudoscorpion posted:

Toxic really only makes sense in this specific context with trampling creatures where the poison is all-or-nothing, unlike normal damage. On 99% of creatures it might as well read 'deal $POWER or $TOXIC * 2 damage, whichever is higher', since high-toxic low-power creatures are going to be going for a poison win and high-power low-toxic creatures will be going for a normal damage win.

Well I would argue it gives you the choice and doesn't go all in on the poison kill like most Infect creatures, like Skithiryx for instance. Also makes Corrupted harder to turn on with something like Bloated Contaminator.





Poison kills can also be relevant against decks like Angels in Pioneer, which can gain absurd life totals but maybe there is some Green/X deck that can shift into Poison.

Silhouette
Nov 16, 2002

SONIC BOOM!!!

I'm already planning a spicy pioneer/explorer build with Fynn, Saryth and some toxic dudes

Fynn + Saryth makes your toxic creatures add +2 poison counters in addition to their counters from Toxic

Kashuno
Oct 9, 2012

Where the hell is my SWORD?
Grimey Drawer

Sickening posted:

So toxic just infect if it were bad?

Toxic is going to feel significantly better to play with in limited than infect did

Tom Clancy is Dead
Jul 13, 2011

Toxic is much worse than Infect in linear constructed decks, and much better than Infect in decks that don't go all in on the mechanic like in limited.

That's probably a good direction for poison counters to go.

Wittgen
Oct 13, 2012

We have decided to decline your offer of a butt kicking.
The way certain cards turn on or do more if your opponent has x or more poison counters seems like fun design space. There is value to the poison counters other than just getting to ten and winning. That plays better with these kinds of low value toxic cards.

The mechanic seems like it will be more fun to play with and against than infect.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes
proliferate being everywhere is also going to help significantly

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!
https://twitter.com/JqlGirl/status/1615946953895862272

This works?

YggdrasilTM
Nov 7, 2011


No.

Tom Clancy is Dead
Jul 13, 2011


Oracle text: One or more target creatures become green until end of turn.

JawnV6
Jul 4, 2004

So hot ...

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Only in Urabrask's bit because he likes them around to annoy Elesh Norn

There's something about Sheoldred and Elesh both kind of agreeing that All will be One, but sniping and backstabbing over the exact methodology?

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
If you have a bunch of creature tokens then you can give your opponent one poison counter for each of them.

If you only have that one guy on the board then you give your opponent one poison counter. You cant pick your one guy ten times and get ten triggers.

I think in any format where both cards are legal, if you have a way to stick a sufficient number of creatures, you don't need the janky combo to win that game.

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

I didn't think so

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
Are there any good ways to repeatedly retarget a spell or ability on the stack to trigger the rotpriest? Two spellskites I guess.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
oh for some reason I thought rotpriest was legendary. Combo kills just get a million times easier if you have two (or more) of them out at once.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes

Jabor posted:

If you have a bunch of creature tokens then you can give your opponent one poison counter for each of them.

If you only have that one guy on the board then you give your opponent one poison counter. You cant pick your one guy ten times and get ten triggers.

I think in any format where both cards are legal, if you have a way to stick a sufficient number of creatures, you don't need the janky combo to win that game.

you've never seen a commander boardstall where one person has an army of 1/1s, i guess

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Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

flatluigi posted:

you've never seen a commander boardstall where one person has an army of 1/1s, i guess

You're right I wasn't thinking of Commander. Though in that case you'll probably want Cauldron Haze if it's in your colours, which at least does something if you're not comboing off.

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