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TotalHell posted:As someone who has a Gruul Werewolf deck, I can tell you: the correct way to handle DFCs is to fumble with them as you struggle to get them out of their sleeves every time, apologize profusely to your opponent, and eventually watch as they concede because you’re taking too much time. Some people call it angle shooting, I can it arthritis and a boyish love of universal studios monster movies.
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WUBRG Sliver precon, time for the Sliver Eldrazi that gives everything Annihilator 1.
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https://twitter.com/mtg_arena/status/1628100855131164673?s=46&t=nPjgUHWil5DJqDleiSCQ7g Fiiiinallllyyyyyyyyyy
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lol imagine wasting a card of what could be a new iconic cycle on some alchemy bullshit: https://twitter.com/MTG_Arena/status/1628097752105381889
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apparently it also works for all card styles, but I didn't see the stream and don't know if it means you can favorite a style within a printing or if you can go replace your man-making GBS threads-on-toilwt duresses in ONE limited with any of the other arts on arena
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SOI Remastered comes out March 21 on arena! No news about what's in, what's out, and if we're getting random extra cards like in Amonkhet
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Feb 21, 2023 19:42
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Katana Gomai posted:After almost two days without new spoilers, here's Commander Masters Hah! I called the Capture of Jingzhou reprint back when Warrior's Oath and Last Chance got reprints.
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Feb 21, 2023 19:57
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AngryBooch posted:lol imagine wasting a card of what could be a new iconic cycle on some alchemy bullshit: I feel like this is already (mostly) supportable in paper with existing color pie mechanics, so this kinda sucks that we can't get the full cycle in paper
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Feb 21, 2023 20:00
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That's definitely Commodore Guff on the one precon. All those precons sound cool. I was just thinking about building Slivers also but most of the good ones are $10+ so this will help.
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Feb 21, 2023 20:07
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Commodore Guff needs to be a double-sized card like Big Urza to appropriately capture his power.
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The LOTR set is dropping in November. The Doctor Who set is supposed to come out Q4 this year too, wonder if they're going to jam that into December along with Ixalan
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Calling it now: the Abzan deck will have a Femeref Enchantress reprint
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N-N-N-NINE BREAKER posted:I feel like this is already (mostly) supportable in paper with existing color pie mechanics, so this kinda sucks that we can't get the full cycle in paper It would be interesting in paper with some changes. It would have to work like Memory Jar with cards drawn equal to the damage dealt. But that's way too much downside if your opponent pings it for 1.
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Khanstant posted:The LOTR set is dropping in November. The Doctor Who set is supposed to come out Q4 this year too, wonder if they're going to jam that into December along with Ixalan LTR comes out in June, they have a special product version in November
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Goa Tse-tung posted:Calling it now: the Abzan deck will have a Femeref Enchantress reprint Probably not as that's on the RL.
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N-N-N-NINE BREAKER posted:I feel like this is already (mostly) supportable in paper with existing color pie mechanics, so this kinda sucks that we can't get the full cycle in paper wait what? Seek isn't a mechanic you can do in paper
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Charity Porno posted:wait what? Seek isn't a mechanic you can do in paper That’s true but they could do the normal red thing where you exile top 5 etc
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One of the other cards that showed is literally just Birthing Pod, except it says seek instead of search. But like, pod decks only have like 1-2 creatures of each cost, so its mostly the same. They're just putting seek and perpetual on random cards because I'm pretty sure its arena devs and not magic R&D making this alchemy bullshit.
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JawnV6 posted:Went to my first RCQ over the weekend! I asked another FNM regular if he'd be there, and I didn't really understand the disdain in his voice for "competitive magic." Sounds about right. Flying in for an RCQ is insane though lol
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Time posted:That’s true but they could do the normal red thing where you exile top 5 etc They still could!
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mcmagic posted:Sounds about right. Flying in for an RCQ is insane though lol Yeah  I could see going in to play if you're visiting family or friends anyway, but if they really traveled in for an RCQ that's some next level grinder bs
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Weird Pumpkin posted:Yeah Some real strong "I'm banned from all stores in my tri state area" energy
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Katana Gomai posted:After almost two days without new spoilers, here's Commander Masters lol quote:First Look: May 16, 2023
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Feb 21, 2023 21:46
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The free commander spells desperately need reprints so this is cool.
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I'd rather see explicit Commander sets than trying to hijack other products meant for other formats
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fadam posted:The free commander spells desperately need reprints so we probably won't get that and instead get rare borderless reprints of Temple of the False God and Reliquary Tower with some new Sol Ring art. Also reprints of all the slow come in tapped dual lands. Fixed for reality.  Where da money at? Holy poo poo on the zoom in on the amazon listing the collector booster "box" is once again only four packs Jiro fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Feb 21, 2023 |
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Jiro posted:Fixed for reality. https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1628122414512062465 
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For just a dollar a day, less than the price of a cup of coffee thirty years ago, you could sponsor a wizard of the coast in need and fund a fine feast or a nice quarterly report from a business gossip newspaper.
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How’s Alchemy doing? MTG is a complicated enough game that I don’t feel compelled to learn a whole new variant of each set. I gotta imagine the whole thing’s confusing to a lot of casual players.
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Rinkles posted:How’s Alchemy doing? MTG is a complicated enough game that I don’t feel compelled to learn a whole new variant of each set. casual players don't really give a poo poo because they don't really need to keep track of multiple versions of cards since the game does that work for them (and generally alchemy+rebalanced cards are a fairly small chunk of the formats alchemy cards are legal in, anyway)
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Rinkles posted:How’s Alchemy doing? MTG is a complicated enough game that I don’t feel compelled to learn a whole new variant of each set. i don't know how it's "doing" like saleswise but it fuckin sucks, the cards are often WAY too pushed and it's loving up Historic and HBrawl
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Alchemy Baldurs Gate was probably a disaster saleswise. (Judging by how many fewer views streamers got playing it at least.) Someone is glad that they decided not to do that again with Lotr.
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Rinkles posted:How’s Alchemy doing? MTG is a complicated enough game that I don’t feel compelled to learn a whole new variant of each set. I never did a purpose-built Alchemy deck so it's just constant surprises of "wait why's that cost 1 more. For _one_ more card????"
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A Moose posted:One of the other cards that showed is literally just Birthing Pod, except it says seek instead of search. But like, pod decks only have like 1-2 creatures of each cost, so its mostly the same. They're just putting seek and perpetual on random cards because I'm pretty sure its arena devs and not magic R&D making this alchemy bullshit. The whole thing that made pod so powerful was that you could choose whether you were getting your value card for further podding, your combo card, or a toolbox card to disrupt your opponent or protect yourself. It's very much not "mostly the same".
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A Moose posted:Some real strong "I'm banned from all stores in my tri state area" energy Having been around a lot of Magic folks, you know the type who's just itching to get back to a poker table and grind? That guy. Commander's been a blast though. A lot of ONE cards to upgrade my precon, trading for a few more, I finally won a pod. I'd sort of expected it to come sooner rather than later, lots of good cards plagued by bad draws. What really surprised me was another game I didn't win but.. I was the villain. I was ahead, and the rest of the players were focused on taking me down. After a bunch of games getting wiped out by splashy things aimed at other folks, that felt great.
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Another "fun" thing Alchemy does is "spellbooks" where some cards make 1 of FIFTEEN other cards (which you can see one at a time in a terrible interface) and as an opponent you're supposed to just be able to loving do something with that information.
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Charity Porno posted:Another "fun" thing Alchemy does is "spellbooks" where some cards make 1 of FIFTEEN other cards (which you can see one at a time in a terrible interface) and as an opponent you're supposed to just be able to loving do something with that information. this used to bug me but someone jokingly told me once 'wait until you hear about the mechanic "draw a card" and how many options THAT can be' and I haven't really recovered
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flatluigi posted:this used to bug me but someone jokingly told me once 'wait until you hear about the mechanic "draw a card" and how many options THAT can be' and I haven't really recovered it's not that I think they're equivalent myself but it's that I can't articulate a reason why spellbooks bug me that isn't also a problem with tutoring a card or even just drawing a card normally anymore and I'm not sure what even exactly changed about my perspective from what it used to be
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