Errant Gin Monks posted:

To be fair I work for a major car company that sells billions a year and we can't figure out how to fund IT either.

GoutPatrol posted:

Other things it could be:
Sac at end of turn.
Put a -1/-1 counter on it.
Returns to your hand at end of combat.

Willeh posted:

Can't wait to confuse +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters in limited

Siivola posted:

I think Maro's gone on record saying that they only use one or the other within a block because of that.

Boxman posted:

I mean, that was the stated goal from the beginning.

I think "fun", "flavorful", "not pushed for tournament play" and "expensive to cast and splashy" all that close to one another is as close as a WotC employee will ever get to saying "trash for people who post on internet forums about magic the gathering"

Sickening posted:

If they do it that way, they are accidentally going to make one of the walkers playable and it won't end up in the hands of their target customer. About any time they pack value into these starter sets stores and spikes will simply crack them for value.

Irony Be My Shield posted:

Isn't this actually a relevant upside that lets you put it on an opponent's creature? Maybe they just wanted to give players that option.

Eikre posted:

It would be if it weren't for the other real functional change that nobody's pointed out, which is that Keen Sense had a triggered ability, whereas Sixth Sense conveys a triggered ability upon enchanted creature.

PJOmega posted:

Are FNM sanctioned drafts supposed to provide land?

Entropic posted:

I ended up playing in a Standard event a couple weeks ago and realized I'd forgot to bring my stack of all the tokens for my GW deck that makes like 6 different types of tokens and throws lots of counters on them. I felt like the worst person. After round 1 I ended up tearing up a score sheet to make improvised tokens I could actually write the names of things on.


I just realized Masterpieces are basically the replacement for From The Vault. Are they still doing FTVs? It feels like they fight for the same space.

ShaneB posted:

Can anyone who was playing at the time explain to me why Coldsnap exists? It seems so bizzare to release a tiny set that was tied into Ice Age from 11 years prior.

Elyv posted:

to the first, I think that's the thread consensus. To the second, Wizards has stopped with full art promos and in my mind that is the correct decision because not everyone knows everything about every card, even very experienced players. For example, is Cryptic's fourth mode "Tap all creatures target player controls", "Tap all creatures target opponent controls", or "Tap all creatures your opponent's control"? Let's read the card to find out

Rinkles posted:

Jabor posted:

But then you make it cost one more mana, and it's suddenly unplayable even in modern.

En Fuego posted:

Mind Twist brings up really poo poo memories of Dark Ritual.

Also, Mind Twist is good in cube. Like REALLY good.

It's a good card, Brent.

Angry Grimace posted:

You will ruin your opponents day with Mind Twist at prerelease.

Hellsau posted:

It's a card that costs 12 and instantly wins you the game, but if you play against a streamer while a WotC employee is watching you'll get banned.


That's the weird part, Igor Kieryluk isn't a bad artist. He's done some great stuff, including some of the most iconic art in modern Magic:



but he's also done this poo poo which is iconic for the opposite reason:



so I dunno if it's intentional art direction or the artist just being sloppy.

Siivola posted:

I can certainly stop if it makes you uncomfortable, but it's actually okay to enjoy things.

Sickening posted:

They can even be fetched. Good cards.

whydirt posted:

Now I want to make dual proxies all using Bob Ross paintings as the art.

Rap Record Hoarder posted:

There's probably a casual R/B madness deck that wants to run 1-2 of these, but it seems a bit narrow otherwise. Feels like the mana cost on the discard ability got bumped up by 1 or 2 as a buffer against being overpowered. Interesting design otherwise though.

TheKingofSprings posted:

For it to come down swinging turn 4 with no mulligans or discards, you have to play 9 cards on the play in 3 turns, and 10 on the draw at least.

4 of those are lands obviously, but that still means you have to cast 5 cards on the play, 6 on the draw.

Siivola posted:

T1 Bomat Courier, T2 Flameblade Adept, T3 Cultivator's Caravan, T4 Hazoret the Pervert, sac Courier, swing for 13, T5–??? uh, topdeck... Stuff?

JerryLee posted:

I think a distinction ought to be drawn between being unintuitive, which includes plenty of things that are otherwise fine for magic (going all the way back to the "I put an unholy strength and a holy strength on my air elemental at the same time!!" example from the Alpha rulebook), and being actually difficult for a person of reasonable cognitive and language-using capabilities to understand once the loophole or edge case is described to them, which covers... very few things in Magic, actually?

Of course, opinions may differ with respect to whether the janky Beck//Call combos were actually good for Magic. I happen to think they were fine. They enabled some cool janky decks that weren't actually a threat to the metagame.

Sampatrick posted:

Do you really think WotC will reprint Sphinx's Revelation? Have they even printed a scaling card draw spell since RTR?

Entropic posted:

The all-caps STAPpa on Italian cards will never stop looking like an Alpha-era printing error to me.

SoftNum posted:

Why can't/don't they use the tap symbol in italian?

dragon enthusiast posted:

Is using all caps for invented words a thing in Italian?

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

Then I've gotta hold on to hope...!

Sickening posted:

I am not spending money on the forums. You can feel free to quote me if ever WOTC decides to make another silly decision and ban it.

Ultima66 posted:

By the way this works with no mana cost cards (Living End, Restore Balance) and lets you cast them immediately as soon as the enchantment hits the table.

Also it lets you cast 1 free spell on your turn and 1 free instant on your opponent's turn.

Sickening posted:

Is this your first main phase or the mysterious pre-combat step that you can only get to by saying the correct lingo.

Count Bleck posted:

Hey it's the Nile River.


Hey it's Naturalize with Upside.

TheKingofSprings posted:

This seems really, really solid.

Rinkles posted:

mcmagic posted:

It's fine the way Ruinous Path is fine but it's not good and you can't really play with more than 1 of in standard.

Rinkles posted:

The bottom line is that vehicles are unfortunately mostly poo as a concept.

Sickening posted:

I don't have the correct password for the shared account or I would just post it.

SCG articles are absolute poo poo. I only ever read it when me and friends use up the free premium from IQ's. Far too often the requested content isn't worth the copy and paste for whoever wants it.

To tell you the truth, most mtg articles are incredibly bad these days. Pros don't want to give up their edge and instead post the bare minimum to get paid or keep their contract. The only people who want to tell you everything they know are medium players at best.

Rinkles posted:

woah

mcmagic posted:

Why does a 5/5 beater need death touch? What is this losing in combat to?

Sampatrick posted:

Actually I think the relevant lesson for this card is Tibalt

Angry Grimace posted:

One of the biggest problems with evaluating a card like Nissa is that there's a very heavy tendency to evaluate the card on generic terms that appear in a lot of SCG articles/CFB articles that may or may not apply to the card in particular. Like, saying "well she doesn't protect herself" isn't as valid if you cast something for 3 mana and it goes on to win the game for you because its both topdecking and deploying threats for free. People really, really love taking very firm opinions on these kind of things even though they shouldn't be applied in a vacuum to cards that have yet to see any play. It's the same way "dies to Doom Blade" is basically dead horse trope of MTG fora despite the fact that it can be more or less valid depending on the card (e.g. its a less valid criticism of a card like Tarmogoyf than it is of, say, Shivan Dragon)