Weird Pumpkin posted:

I posted this in the arena thread, but dang they let you just buy wildcards now in arena? $2/rare isn't bad at all too, all things considered

Oh wait is it a one time purchase thing?

edit: oh, looking it up online I guess you can only buy x amount or whatever.

After I'm through drafting and stuff I guess I'll see where I'm at. I gotta imagine it's technically more efficient from a collection standpoint to just draft

Aphrodite posted:

So the Clue box is what, Eternal legal stuff?

Strong Sauce posted:

Captain Invictus posted:

I wasn't aware of the MTG twitch rivals tournament, where you had one pro player coaching a streamer who is a casual mtg player, and each play in their own brackets(pros and casuals) to earn enough wins to reach the finals. Even if pros lose, the amount of damage they do to their opponent affects the casual's games in the event of a tie, which is a neat aspect to it.

LifeLynx posted:

Wojek Investigator is good in Commander. Maybe. White has gotten better at card draw, and that makes her less reliable. New Aurelia is really good for Boros decks, the worst color pair in Commander needs that push. Demand Answers is probably good in Pauper, but red decks might be better off with Reckless Impulse, Wrenn's Resolve, and Experimental Synthesizer unless they want to be sacrificing artifacts. Jeskai Affinity maybe?

PlasticAutomaton posted:

Detective is a new creature type.

Aphrodite posted:

So the Clue box is what, Eternal legal stuff?

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PLAY MAGIC WITH A KILLER TWIST—Guildmage Boddy lies slain in his manor and it’s your job to determine the manner of his demise; gather evidence when you deal combat damage, then follow the clues to crack the case
-JUST SHUFFLE & PLAY—Grab 2 boosters, shuffle them together, and let the sleuthing begin; with 8 ready-to-play boosters (each featuring 1 new Rare card), Ravnica: Clue Edition is perfect for 3–4 players but also plays well with 2

- Ravnica: Clue Edition contains 8 ready-to-play Ravnica: Clue Edition Boosters, 1 Clue Booster containing 21 Evidence cards, 1 Traditional Foil Shock Land Box Topper card, 4 Hidden Info Screens, 1 Evidence Notepad, 1 Case File Envelope, and a sturdy card storage box. Each Ravnica: Clue Edition Booster contains 20 nonfoil Magic cards, including all the lands you need to play. In each ready-to-play Ravnica: Clue Edition Booster you’ll find 1 new Rare card and 1 reprint card of rarity Rare or higher. All 21 Evidence cards are also playable Magic cards, with 6 Borderless Legendary Creature cards representing murder suspects, 5 Artifact cards representing possible murder weapons, and 10 Land cards depicting locations that may have been the scene of the crime.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

It was in WHO. Nothing is new. Everything is worse. Roaming Throne can be a Gamer - a literal gaming chair.

newershadow posted:

It seems like there's a bunch of extra stuff in there that may or may not be in the main set, but the Amazon Listing makes it seem a lot like Jumpstart.

Lurks With Wolves posted:

My only complaint about the flavor so far is that Detective feels like a Samurai-tier subtype in terms of how set-specific it is, and there's a lot of cards they're never going to be able to reprint without having people go "why is a detective here".

(Curious Cadaver is the only card I dislike for having the Detective subtype, just because that combination of name and abilities would be so fun to reinterpret in another set, but there's probably more Detective-matters cards like Burden of Proof in the full set that are never going to have the critical mass of detectives in another set they'd need to function.)

Aphrodite posted:

So sounds like it will be at least Eternal legal, since they are all still functional cards. Whether it's legal in anything else remains to be seen, but probably not.

Lurks With Wolves posted:

My only complaint about the flavor so far is that Detective feels like a Samurai-tier subtype in terms of how set-specific it is, and there's a lot of cards they're never going to be able to reprint without having people go "why is a detective here".

(Curious Cadaver is the only card I dislike for having the Detective subtype, just because that combination of name and abilities would be so fun to reinterpret in another set, but there's probably more Detective-matters cards like Burden of Proof in the full set that are never going to have the critical mass of detectives in another set they'd need to function.)

Lurks With Wolves posted:

My only complaint about the flavor so far is that Detective feels like a Samurai-tier subtype in terms of how set-specific it is, and there's a lot of cards they're never going to be able to reprint without having people go "why is a detective here".

(Curious Cadaver is the only card I dislike for having the Detective subtype, just because that combination of name and abilities would be so fun to reinterpret in another set, but there's probably more Detective-matters cards like Burden of Proof in the full set that are never going to have the critical mass of detectives in another set they'd need to function.)

Eej posted:

I honestly can't understand why you dislike the concept of "Zombie Detective"

Mix. posted:

Detectives can be on Innistrad, Ravnica, Capenna, Kaladesh, Kamigawa, Fiora, probably Vryn, probably Kylem, probably Dominaria, and possibly Thunder Junction. There's plenty of room for the type not even getting into any of the other new planes we've seen like Duskmourn or the sci fi plane. Getting weird about it being fully codified is kinda dumb imo

Lurks With Wolves posted:

Maybe I'm just being a bit too precious, but Detective as a term just feels a bit too tied to Sherlock and noir to really fit the fantasy for a lot of planes? And MtG is admittedly really diversifying their themes lately and there's a lot of decent places to include some detectives when this set is in Standard (I just realized they could do a great mouse detective in the Redwall-esque plane whose name I'm forgetting), but once this set rotates I just can't see them printing more than one a year when they aren't going to Innistrad or New Capenna. (Or the modern horror plane whose name I'm also forgetting.)

Judgy Fucker posted:

I get what they're going for here but man are these dogshit to look at.

kalel posted:

my "I hate zombie detectives" t-shirt gets a lot of questions which are already answered by my shirt

Lord_Magmar posted:

Detectives at minimum could be in the modern slasher/thriller/horror hotel set that's coming soon.

snyprmag posted:

Free card name idea, wizards: goblin gumshoe

Strong Sauce posted:

ram dass in hell posted:

??????

Otherkinsey Scale posted:

Literally what is happening in this art. It looks like she's trying to kill him, but the flavour text on the showcase says she's saving him. Why is there a knife just floating in midair between them.