Ultima66 posted:

What do you mean Zurgo is less badass as a Bellstriker? Just imagine this card:

Zurgo Bellstriker - 3R
Legendary Creature - Ogre Warrior
Dash 2R
T: Tap target creature and put a Bell Strike counter on it. It doesn't untap during it's controller's upkeep as long as it has a Bell Strike counter on it and gains "6: Untap this creature."
3/3

I would play the poo poo out of this card.

ungulateman posted:

I really hope there's an "Exile target Dragon" removal spell at uncommon or that G/W dude is going to be almost literally impossible to beat in limited.

I also hope there's an "Exile target Dragon" removal spell in white so that Stormbreath Dragon remains the most playable Dragon in Standard from now until rotation.

forbidden lesbian posted:

like you don't want multiples at all? are they saying you should only run one?

Angry Grimace posted:

All I'm saying is that Sligh is a junky gimmick deck for dirty poors who want to pick off a few unsuspecting schmoes in MODO 2-man queues don't shoot the messenger okay?

Angry Grimace posted:

Gimmick deck player spotted.

Angry Grimace posted:

I just sort of assumed the "dirty poors" part gave that away.

I mean, well, I guess I don't know. Some of you Sligh-players might actually be unwashed commoners well beneath my station.

Zoness posted:

but orcs arent goblins

Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:

im going to do it and splash for jeskai ascendancy and attack for 20 on turn 4

forbidden lesbian posted:

I really wish they would stop trying to make warriors a thing

Allstone posted:

I really want to see them explore more of the positive aspects of black in cards and characters. It's been nice to see some more white-aligned villains recently though. I just feel like it's interesting space.

jassi007 posted:

He asked to borrow it, my friend is 35 the borrower is mid 20's? I think at this point my friend is a little too offended, like he can't quite let it go. He also just doesn't want to flat out say you can't borrow my poo poo anymore. It was awkward because I went to the shop friday the dude was asking me about borrowing the deck again from my friend, I didn't want to really get involved so i said I don't know. Then the girl I lent my tron deck to on Saturday bought me a couple foils (expedition map and chromatic star) which was really beyond nice, once my friend found out about that he was on facebook all "thats how you thank someone" so I expect it to be a thing soon.

I certainly don't expect people to pimp out decks etc. just for lending it out, but like you guys said and I agree at least a thank you is cool.

A big flaming stink posted:

its still hilarious that Kolaghan kicking white out of Mardu really mellowed them out. I guess they had the fascist part of white

mr. mephistopheles posted:

Oh god black is libertarians.

Wezlar posted:

How reasonable is the dude who wanted to borrow it? Would it be possible to maybe just take him aside and be like "Hey guywholentyoudeck was sort of offended you didn't really thank him after he won, he would probably really appreciate it if you said something to him next time you see him." without the dude blowing it up into a thing?

mr. mephistopheles posted:

Authoritarian conformity is extremely white and not really black.

Count Bleck posted:

Spoil Surrak already gently caress.

I'm at a super IQ right now, I don't think anybody was ready for my deck seeing as the majority of the field is looking like UB/Sultai control and RW Aggro/mono red burn.

I'm gonna get blown out by the random Jeskai deck.

But 4 Stubborn Denial in the main board is really, really good, wow.

Mercury Crusader posted:

I'm kind of looking at it from the idea of it walking past one blocker like a Caryatid, or potentially trading with two goblin tokens from an opposing Hordeling Outburst by turn three/four. The 4-mana 3/2 that sometimes draws a card is just kind of there if you get stuck in a later game. Otherwise, yeah, 2/1 for 2 ain't exactly the best aggressive card these days, but I don't remember any pikers that have the Goblin War Drums evasion ability so I'm thinking about weird edge cases. At the very least, it's better than Jeering Instigator.

Irony Be My Shield posted:

War-name's evasion is pretty narrow and often becomes irrelevant quickly, wheras Ire Shaman can stay evasive as long as you can keep your opponent on one creature. That's not too unreasonable with how good red's removal suite looks after DTK.

Madmarker posted:

Hell, flavor can be used to justify anything. Well, since blue has the flavor of reality warping, why doesn't blue have land ramp to show it warping the terrain.

Dohaeris posted:

What would you guys recommend for a newer player as a deck that is relatively inexpensive but still competitive at a typical FNM in the current standard? Or at least will potentially still be competitive after Dragons of Tarkir. I like my Sultai deck but as someone else told me in this thread, it does seem like it requires a ton of decision making that I'm still really bad at as a new player.

compton rear end terry posted:

I've been out of magic for a long time. Looking at recent winning standard decks. Since when can you build competituve standard decks for ~$200? The top 8 of GP Miami are all under $250.

Babylon Astronaut posted:

I don't want to call a dude out for not understanding wizard poker very well, but do you mean the dude in this thread who didn't understand why you would pay life for something and didn't think the shocks and bob are very good?

whydirt posted:

The posts in this thread are last-pick trash.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

It's more the lovely rationalization of the lack of the legend and the obvious spots where it could've gone, here on the eve of the third time this has happened in the last four years, when he has specifically acknowledged the last two times were wrong.

JerryLee posted:

I always sort of assumed that lore-wise walkers were similar to players* in the sense that they had access to all five colors of mana but just chose what appealed to them or best fit their style. Like, if Sorin found his philosophy shifting and decided he wanted to start forming mana bonds with mountains and burning the poo poo out of everything, there wouldn't really be anything stopping him.

*Meaning, of course, the sort of stereotypical casual Vorthos who thinks of himself as "a blue mage" or whatever, rather than the practical reality of a lot of tournament players where you end up playing what you think is best for the Grand Prix or whatever.

Entropic posted:

Kurtofan posted:

"Hémato-" is the prefix for blood, my guess is that it takes less space than "sanguin" or "de sang".Prefixes tend to avoid having too many nouns "baron de sang de vizkopia" doesn't sound so great.

Also it sounds kind of cool

mcmagic posted:

If you're playing a control deck in this next standard and you don't have 4x Narset you're doing it wrong.

Sirbloody posted:

I can't decide which Dragonlord to pick on pre-release..... According to my LGS only 10 people signed up (Pretty small town, most people travel to Savannah for the bigger events). I really like U/W but I am not a huge fan of control, the only other color I am interested in is W/G...

vegetables posted:

Being in the Dromoka sounds okay if you don't like your ancestors, and I can't stand mine so I'd be golden.

All the same, it's depressing how all my favourite settings - Dominaria, Mirrodin and now Tarkir - keep getting turned into less interesting hellhole versions of themselves. It's like Creative needs to know a setting will be irretrievably destroyed before they're able to make it interesting.

Angry Grimace posted:

I suppose what I"m getting at is, why would you live in those territories? Just move to the islands or the deserts where the dragon clans have fun kickin-rad parties and don't attempt to eat you all the goddamn time. Specifically looking at the Atarka since the guide seems to imply it sucks living there since Atarka might get bored and eat you and most people live in fear of that.

Angry Grimace posted:

Sure, but every Elspeth we've had is just token-creating Elspeth. Its kind of part of her character.

She's a mono-W character stuck in the mono-black underworld. Every "returned" character they had in Theros block was black (except Murder King, who was B/R), so it just logically follows that's how she'd end up. Mono-Black Zombie creating Elspeth might be amusing though.