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The vague, "The effect fizzles" right after talking about Armored Scrapgorger had me scratching my head, trying to figure out why Armored Scrapgorger's effect would fizzle.
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Is there a good umbrella term for statline + combat abilities? There's "body" but that's often used for just stats.
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Feb 20, 2023 20:44
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:Is there a good umbrella term for statline + combat abilities? There's "body" but that's often used for just stats. "with upside"
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Feb 20, 2023 20:50
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I hadn't noticed before that Heliod is getting smaller everytime we see him. Maybe a little something to touch on people losing faith in him?
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Feb 20, 2023 20:58
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Goa Tse-tung posted:Blue compleats White on Theros This tracks but man if Hazoret gets got  Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I hadn't noticed before that Heliod is getting smaller everytime we see him. Maybe a little something to touch on people losing faith in him? Nice catch, hadn't noticed that at all. IIRC he loses to Elspeth in Theros Beyond Death because enough people have either stopped believing in him or switched over to believing in Elspeth such that her weapon (Shadowspear) becomes more real than his. Then he gets dragged off to deity timeout by Erebos. So maybe he gets out (or set free) by the time the Phyrexians show up but much diminished in both power and adherents, setting him up for easy compleatin.
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Feb 20, 2023 21:29
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I'm still mad that Shadowspear wasn't called God's End, I mean it was right there
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Feb 20, 2023 22:05
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Silhouette posted:I'm still mad that Shadowspear wasn't called God's End, I mean it was right there the dual meaning was already intended with Godsend there's probably also a soft ban on homophones for Borborygmos reasons
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Feb 20, 2023 22:37
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:Is there a good umbrella term for statline + combat abilities? There's "body" but that's often used for just stats. ive heard the term 'french vanilla' used to describe a creature that is simply a P/T and an evergreen keyword like vigilance or trample.
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Feb 20, 2023 23:17
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Barry Shitpeas posted:the dual meaning was already intended with Godsend What the hell is borbbeoyohfnosbroy supposed to be a homophone for? I've never heard anyone say that cards name right and can't do it myself
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Feb 20, 2023 23:54
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Khanstant posted:What the hell is borbbeoyohfnosbroy supposed to be a homophone for? I've never heard anyone say that cards name right and can't do it myself Borborygmos vs. Borborygmos Enraged.
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Feb 20, 2023 23:55
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Silhouette posted:I'm still mad that Shadowspear wasn't called God's End, I mean it was right there It's Shadow's Pear
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Feb 21, 2023 00:58
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Jabor posted:Borborygmos vs. Borborygmos Enraged. To elaborate there was an infamous incident when someone named Borborygmus with Pithing Needle instead of Borborygmus Enraged which was the only one in the opponents deck. It inspired a rules change that's basically "Cut that poo poo out you know what they mean" so if you name something like "Liliana, the 3 mana one that makes both players discard or sacrifice" it counts.
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Feb 21, 2023 01:07
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It was a rare case where the shorthand for a relevant card was the name of another legal card. There's nothing stopping you from naming something stupid as heck when choosing a card name. This mostly has its uses in making a spell intentionally wiff or wasting your opponent's stuff when they're mindslaver'd. The Borb case is blatant angle shooting based on that, though. Funfact: you can only name cards legal in the format you're playing. You can't pick Mistakes Were Made in a tournament, sadly.
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Feb 21, 2023 02:18
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:It was a rare case where the shorthand for a relevant card was the name of another legal card. There's nothing stopping you from naming something stupid as heck when choosing a card name. This mostly has its uses in making a spell intentionally wiff or wasting your opponent's stuff when they're mindslaver'd. In legacy you can name "Abandon Hope" as you're comboing to a win with cabal therapy though, which is always a classic
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Feb 21, 2023 02:21
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Weird Pumpkin posted:In legacy you can name "Abandon Hope" as you're comboing to a win with cabal therapy though, which is always a classic It's also a very convenient card to name on MTGO, because before the D&D set it was the alphabetically first Legacy-legal card, and thus the first thing in the list box where you pick what card you're naming. Even now it's still on the first page.
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Feb 21, 2023 02:31
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Funfact: you can only name cards legal in the format you're playing. You can't pick Mistakes Were Made in a tournament, sadly. 201.4a If a player is instructed to choose a card name with certain characteristics, the player must choose the name of a card whose Oracle text matches those characteristics. (See rule 108.1.) Example: Dispossess reads, in part, “Choose an artifact card name.” The player can choose the name of any artifact card, even one that’s not legal in the format of the current game. The player can’t choose Island, even if an Island on the battlefield has been turned into artifact by some effect. The tournament rules on identify cards don't require you to name format-legal cards, but they do state that if there is any confusion about a name you MUST seek clarification
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Feb 21, 2023 02:39
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My conclusions are, either they changed it back, or someone lied to me.
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Feb 21, 2023 02:41
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Khanstant posted:What the hell is borbbeoyohfnosbroy supposed to be a homophone for? I've never heard anyone say that cards name right and can't do it myself Bore-bore-rig-moss It's the scientific name for the growl your stomach makes when you're hungry.
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Forgive me for the art criticism post, but just airing them out. It just isn't hitting from the previews to me, which is a shame, as ONE was loving great. Trying to put my finger on why, one major one is how little joy there is to be found looking around the more busy illustrations. With ONE you got a lot of small rewards of learning "oh that's ALSO muscle, ew ew ew why is that teeth". Made it fun to pour over. Looking around this one, there's no personality to enjoy from the elves, or mooks. There's no rewards for pouring over it.   That one is a cool composition, but same kinda bug for me. I kind of wish they had done a bit more fleshing out of the baddies so that you could recognize the creatures we're looking at here. Like if the frontlines here were mites, being led by a Phyrexian Champion, that'd be dope. You'd have a reference point for what the goodies are up against. Timing wise that'd surely be harder, but it all feels very... disjointed. It doesn't help that the personality quirk of nearly all mtg characters is gritting teeth towards the camera darting into battle. tl;dr we need more 
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Weird Pumpkin posted:In legacy you can name "Abandon Hope" as you're comboing to a win with cabal therapy though, which is always a classic smh if you don't always name You Are Already Dead
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Feb 21, 2023 04:26
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Those arts are likely from the new Battle card type, so I think the lack of detail is intentional
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I can't wait until we get a card named Battle For Zendikar, because I love cards that are also the titles of old expansions So far we have Urza's Saga, Mirrodin Besieged, Apocalypse and probably a few others MOM Aftermath will also hopefully give us Alara Reborn, when Elspeth takes the sylex to Alara and detonates it, making Alara into the five shards again and killing the realmbreaker tree somehow
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Feb 21, 2023 04:33
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Silhouette posted:MOM Aftermath will also hopefully give us Alara Reborn, when Elspeth takes the sylex to Alara and detonates it, making Alara into the five shards again and killing the realmbreaker tree somehow Tree is probably staying in some fashion so they can move non-planeswalker characters around planes and have stories where the main characters can't just planeswalk themselves out of danger or have to write some stupid reason why they can't just planeswalk themselves out of danger. Current MTG stories have the Star Trek issue. We need an astro storm to prevent the transporter in every episode.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:
you say that, but the alaran side actually has a LOT of references- knight of new alara, mirror-sigil sergeant, windwright mage, what looks to be yurlock, what looks to be nefarox, and ive seven seen some people saying that odd shape in the sky could be lord of extinction phyrexia not having notable bad guys actively fits the fact that phyrexia is all about assimilation and a loss of identity for all but the most stalwart of mental fortitude- and we already know a lot of the big notable phyrexian characters are elsewhere (jin on kaladesh, elesh seemingly on dominaria, possibly urabrask on eldraine, possibly vorinclex on amonkhet, etc)
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we're in magical fantasy land, so anything's technically possible, but are the compleations reversible? jace didn't change much, but nissa? 
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My understanding (via reddit, of course) is that it's been pretty explicitly stated that once you go full compleat there's no coming back. It's possible to slow the process, and just barely achievable with much difficulty to even stop it, but not to de-Borg anyone who gets that far. That being said, they've done the timey-wimey thing before so who knows?
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The Human Crouton posted:Tree is probably staying in some fashion so they can move non-planeswalker characters around planes and have stories where the main characters can't just planeswalk themselves out of danger or have to write some stupid reason why they can't just planeswalk themselves out of danger. The most likely outcome is someone, probably Teferi (time stuff) and/or Elspeth (deity stuff), does something to "cleanse" realmbreaker and feedback from that cascades to Mirrodin, effectively wiping out all Phyrexians but leaves the tree around to enable all manner of world jumping shenanigans for sufficiently powerful non-planeswalkers. Is it confirmed that realmbreaker being active stops Planeswalkers from jumping planes?
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If the tree sticks around, then we'd better get a new Weatherlight, and the next storyline needs to be Jhoira taking a multiversal cruise with the new crew, and a few additions from other planes. Gimme first mate Kari Zev, with Ragavan chilling with Slimefoot
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Mat Cauthon posted:Is it confirmed that realmbreaker being active stops Planeswalkers from jumping planes? I don't know that, but it at least gives the option to make stories revolve more around non-planeswalker characters and gives them the option to move around.
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god why does Slimefoot and Squee have to be a commander card lmao, i will never get to play it
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orangelex44 posted:My understanding (via reddit, of course) is that it's been pretty explicitly stated that once you go full compleat there's no coming back. It's possible to slow the process, and just barely achievable with much difficulty to even stop it, but not to de-Borg anyone who gets that far. That being said, they've done the timey-wimey thing before so who knows? also to be clear a lot about what we know about compleation is for non-planeswalkers, for planeswalkers a lot of poo poo is still theoretical; we know they still have their souls unlike regular folks, and their spark is still active- its been implied that there's a chance the compleated walkers still have their "real" self alive and just not in control of their body anymore, since tezzeret theorizes in one of the side stories that the real ajani is still in his body, just suppressed, but its only a theory of his, no evidence to support it though for nahiri, uh, she's dead. they used necromancy to reanimate her body but she's gone gone. 
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Compleated Walkers operate under Revenants from Mortal Kombat rules, they still have all their abilities and they are SORT OF themselves, except they are now fully committed to the cause and they are dicks
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Any hints of a possible return to Tarkir any time soon?
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is that different from what happened to venser
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:It was a rare case where the shorthand for a relevant card was the name of another legal card. There's nothing stopping you from naming something stupid as heck when choosing a card name. This mostly has its uses in making a spell intentionally wiff or wasting your opponent's stuff when they're mindslaver'd. At my first side event (INN-RTR standard) I was playing my Door to Nothingness ramp deck and went against U/W control, and I brought in Pithing Needle to stop Snapcaster Mage (because I didn't understand the difference between activated and triggered abilities.)
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Squee also got compleated and came back due to the power of whatever diety thing was giving him his immortality, though it sounded like a one-and-done thing in that story.
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Rinkles posted:Any hints of a possible return to Tarkir any time soon? We see dragonengine kolaghan in the battle art if that counts.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:is that different from what happened to venser Venser died died too (from a sickness he got in Dominaria) but he gave his spark to save Karn. His body got necromanced too but no soul or spark there
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Interesting if MOM is when they introduce battles, just given they're doing Planechase commander 5x suite. Just figured they'd lean into the battles instead of split attention adding back in this major old game/format changing deal.
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