One Deadman posted:

The way Exploit is worded is kinda weird to me?

Instead of using "if" they used "when", so It kinda makes me think there will be way to get multiple exploit triggers?

TheKingofSprings posted:

Wizards doesn't test with eternal formats in mind.

Rinkles posted:

Art for upcoming spoiler

Count Bleck posted:

But torture is alright. Very white/green, very close-knit community very unified in one cause.

Starving Autist posted:

And when he's not dealing with entitled players, he's fielding the most inane questions imaginable: http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/113526026323/what-what-color-would-cookie-monster-be

ungulateman posted:

she's my waifu therefore she is anime, qed

Dr. Stab posted:

Thanks, I only needed one.

1xBackup plan.

Best sideboard.

e: what is there in the format to deal with a resolved Chalice of the Void?

e2: burn is actually the best deck thanks to format all-star Meltdown.

clamiam45 posted:

Same question except for internet comics in general

Gyshall posted:

why does Birds of Paradise have flying?

Sickening posted:

How can variance be eliminated?

Entropic posted:

Whose fault is it that Dominaria went to poo poo? I'm not up on my Time Spiral lore.

Esser-Z posted:

It's not a lens flare! It's part of the MAGIC!

Personally, I prefer the various counter arts that involve punching, smashing, or generally muscling through spells. Badass as gently caress.

Elyv posted:

They don't textlessify unplayable cards.

What I'm trying to say is that they should make a textless Chains of Mephistopheles.

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

Who was it that gave someone 5 cards on MODO off a FoF? I seem to recall an amusing edit.

born on a buy you posted:

losing 5 life to Ad Nauseam is bad. it won't see play in legacy

Pyronic posted:

Everyone here needs a little more Victor in their lives:

The Nastier Nate posted:

They get into a battle of wits where Alhammarret damages Jace's mind but Jace Makes the Sphinx forget how to breathe, he dies.

Cactrot posted:

If nothing else Days undoing has a spot alongside all the other wheel effects, lilanas caress and megrim in nekusar EDH decks

BizarroAzrael posted:

How seriously do we think BFZ will not have enemy fetches now the painlands have been spoiked? Debating shifting my Marsh Flats. I mean, it seems like a big part of the reason they'd return to the setting.

To inject some data into the argument about the new mulligan rule as it relates to Delver decks, I wrote a monte carlo simulation.

The simulation considers a somewhat unrealistic Delver deck that has 4 Delvers, 20 lands, and 36 spells. It then draws opening hands, following a simple mulligan rule (Keep any hand with 2 to 3 lands or a delver and a land). This is a back of the envelope set of initial conditions meant to magnify the effect of the single scry as much as possible: the deck mulligans a lot (26% of the time it mulligans at least once). It then looks at the top card of the deck to see if it flips. I'm assuming, also, that you always scry a land or delver to the bottom, and keep a spell every time, so that on a mulligan, a turn one delver will always flip if a spell is the top card of the library or the second to top card.

Running this simulation 100000 iterations at a time, here's the result: With the current mulligan rules, you have a turn-2 flipped delver just over 29% of the time. With the PT Magic Origins rules, you have a flipped delver just under 32% of the time, a gain of about 3%.

Now, if we could say that you win every game where you have a flipped delver and lose every game where you don't, then that's a 3% gain in game win %age, which is a pretty significant edge. But it isn't, and this calculation is done using the most generous parameters possible. The actual figure is probably closer to 1-2% (In a real deck playing only about 28 instants and sorceries, and under real conditions where you keep more than two thirds of your seven-card hands and sometimes it's correct to scry away a spell or keep a land on top). Furthermore, this difference only translates into game win %age in those instances where the flipped delver actually is the difference between winning and losing. Most games are not that close, and in many games, the delver flip never matters at all (Opponent bolts delver on their turn, opponent has a turn-3 Karn, opponent goes off with Splinter Twin on turn 4, opponent has a Pyroclasm...)

So while it is technically true that this mulligan rule helps the delver deck, the effect is so small that I don't think it changes where Delver is in any given metagame, or how people should build their decks to try and maximise that effect.

With combo decks, the marginal increase in how often you see certain key cards should be similar, ie, not really significant enough. I don't think the difference is enough that, for example, you should take a combo deck to a tournament with this mulligan rule where you wouldn't take it to a tournament with a different mulligan rule.

Toshimo posted:

That's a bad way to look at it.

Going from 29% to 32% isn't a 3% change, it's a 10% change. And that's notable.

Bugsy posted:

"Get this loving ring off my head!"

kizudarake posted:

Have they announced what supplemental stuff we're getting this year? We got commander the last two, are they going three years in a row, or are they going to give us planechase back?

whydirt posted:

A deck about a knight who retreats should obviously be called Brave Sir Robin.

ZorajitZorajit posted:

I've never been a competitive Magic player, so if this is a really stupid question, I hope you can understand. I've been reading the BFZ spoilers and seeing lots of talk about the multiple sets of dual lands included in the set, including the RTR reprints at mythic rarity. I get why these cards are objectively good, even why it would be bad for them to be reliably acquired in limited. My question is this: Why are lands that will be constructed staples in high rarity slots, virtually guaranteeing a high price on the secondary market, when they aren't flashy or particularly novel in their function?

Serperoth posted:

Speaking of beautiful, am I the only one who thinks this piece is godawful? I'm no art expert, but it looks like something out of a bad game Kickstarter.

Elyv posted:

Angry Grimace posted:

Murdergoat.

Gridlocked posted:

Sall good brah.

The Shortest Path posted:

Proliferate probably didn't show up because it's blue/green only and would really throw out the balance of the experience counter thing, I'm guessing.

Not that they really tried to balance anything else, but yeah.