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Irony Be My Shield posted:If the diamond symbol means "Spend only colorless mana on this" then I can believe that spoiler. It would make sense as an Eldrazi mechanic and would work with the 9 colorless lands in BFZ and the random one thrown in each other set in standard. I'd imagine if that were the case, they'd have reminder text on Kozilek saying that, somewhat similar to how phyrexian mana cards had reminder text, though it's not a perfect analog. Wizards loves extreme hand holding. edit: BJPaskoff posted:They sometimes don't put reminder text on mythics.
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Nov 18, 2015 03:18
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The lowercase "a" in Emrakul's annihilator ability always pissed me off.
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PV being completely unable to comprehend how diamond mana works on twitter, even after having it painstakingly explained over and over, is: funny.
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Zoness posted:I mean it's all speculation because there's not really strong evidence, hopes aside, for whether diamond mana is Yeah, he's unable to comprehend why 1) makes any sense, though, when it's trivially easy to understand conceptually.
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Summit Prowler still a fine limited card.
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Angry Grimace posted:So basically like Legendary Cube. (It's really, really bad. It's the Timmiest of Timmy Cubes in an actively boring way). I love legendary cube because 5-color is the best deck, it's easy to draft, and no one applies pressure before turn 5. edit Static Equilibrium posted:In sum, I'm a terrible drafter so Legendary Cube is definitely my kind of turd. MiddleEastBeast fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Boco_T posted:Today's Saffron Olive video is either trolling or he's getting to Kevin Crimin levels of not reading the cards or even attempting to pronounce them correctly. Match 2 in the Emeria deck video features "Sky Husser" vs. "Sierra Ascendant." Reminds me of Paul Cheon not knowing how to pronounce "bestow", which he kept saying beast-ow (like, "ow" that hurts) on streams.
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little munchkin posted:I never really understood the whole problem with complexity until someone I was drafting with said to me "do you ever just not play a card because it's got too many words and can't figure out what it does?". I asked what card it was and said I could probably explain it to them. She showed me Abbot of Keral Keep and I was like oh that card is a bomb you should definitely play it. A friend of mine passed me an Inferno Titan in M12 draft for that reason.
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Serperoth posted:Someone posted this on Tumblr yesterday. I don't get it.
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Terrible Horse posted:I didn't get it either and "knows famous penny arcade panels" or whatever is a pretty niche prerequisite for a joke. Also, the fetus died, not the mother. 0/10
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Hope they print a Mishra's Wasteshop, that taps for ♦♦♦ and can only be spent to cast colourless spells.
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jassi007 posted:artifacts are colorless. This would be better than Mishra's Workshop. A land that tapped for 3 that you could use in vintage shops decks, legacy MUD, modern affinity and Tron. Unless you mean spells as in instants and sorceries, not spells in general. I meant what I wrote and I know it would be a miles better version of Mishra's Workshop (colored-artifact corner cases notwithstanding, which basically don't exist outside of Slash Panther and Metamorph or whatever). I just wanted to type Wasteshop and didn't think someone would take the suggestion of printing a better version of a $900 card seriously.
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Sigma-X posted:So the Mul Daya twins let you do the following: If it did the thing you say it does but that it doesn't do, it would be a lot better, yeah.
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Just saw the original design he made that eventually became Brimaz. 3WWW 3/3 that can tap down non-white creatures for 3WWW, when it deals combat damage to a player, sac it and put 300 1/1s into play lol.
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Randy's great though.
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stinkles1112 posted:I would be really, really surprised if Wastes shows up in any sets after this one that aren't another Return to Zen set. Colorless mana costs are likely to show up about as much as hybrid mana; very occasionally and with specific reasons for doing so. I generally agree with you that the people flipping out over this are largely being huge babies, but your edit is misleading -- as others have pointed out. While a ♦GB creature steadfastly refuses to be red, white, or blue, it is more than being "only" green and black. It is green, black, and colorless now. It will be as hard to cast as a WGB creature would be in an Abzan deck (and harder than a 1GB creature would be in a GB deck). That is still a meaningful difference -- and could conceivably lead to ♦GB creatures being designed slightly differently than 1GB creatures in ways we haven't considered yet. At the very least, the restrictions on your ability to cast ♦BG cards absolutely liken it to being a pseudo 6th color. edit: a cool thing is now the painlands are untapped trilands. MiddleEastBeast fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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AlternateNu posted:That is basically what Fiery Impulse is. They're never going to do a one-mana 3 damage instant that has the creature/player option. I slam my head against the table every time I look at the Fiery Impulse in my digital hand and remember for the 1,000th time that it can't go to my opponent's face.
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Sickening posted:3 damage to creature or player for 2 cmc is also too powerful for current standard. Let that sink in. Yeah I was about to add, Jace recurring Searing Spears would be the new Snapcaster + Bolt and Standard would collapse on itself.
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mcmagic posted:What they are doing it for isn't the point. They should be able to make a living wage at that job that they are very good at. It's not even close to a full time job, and I'm not sure what being very good at a thing has to do with whether one should be able to make a living wage doing it.
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I wonder how much of a hit Jace takes once Khans rotates and fetches leave standard. He's still good, but reliably filling your graveyard with 2-3 cards by turn 3 or 4 just by playing lands absolutely contributes to his current power level (and his power level in older formats). He risks becoming way more Merfolk Looter and way less Reusable Snapcaster Mage.
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Posting to say I, too, got the red shift joke, haha
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rabidsquid posted:Madmarker are you suggesting you cannot see the cards if they aren't moving. Are you a reverse tyrannosaurus Isn't this just regular tyrannosaurus?
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Chill la Chill posted:
Yeah makes sense that you'd want the game's primary resource and mechanic as far away from you as possible
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Dec 18, 2015 18:59
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Lands are the primary resource and mechanic for this game so they should be in front. Also helps to prevent your opponent from cheating with them as easily.
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Ciprian Maricon posted:What I imagine happening in the next five or so years is that Hasbro/Stockholders pressure WOTC to continue the insanely high sales and growth trends of the past five years and as reaching sales figures becomes a greater and greater focus game design starts making short term decisions and the quality starts dropping. Players leave, design doubles down on the next gimmick to try and make their numbers, feedback loop, death. What % of Hasbro income comes from Wizards?
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Irony Be My Shield posted:An absolute tonne of BFZ has been opened due to expeditions. Source? edit: that untap guy is really cool. suck it, diamond mana haters.
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Caleb (best non-Pro Tour content creator) with some fun Legacy ban list thought experiments. http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/the-legacy-ban-list-what-should-change/
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Helene is cool. Good post-which-should-have-been-the-first-post on the matter.
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Hellsau posted:Most of the rest of WotC's efforts are at or below the bare minimum - having someone high up on the tournament organization totem pole who can act and speak like a human being who is competent at their job is more than I've come to expect. Helene is great compared to everyone around her. Yeah basically this. She's the only public facing Wizards employee who appears to have functioning ears and knows how to use them.
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Cernunnos posted:Force of Will is this-a-way. Took one look at the card art and couldn't close the thread fast enough :\
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On the flip side, Wizards paying their programmers poo poo ensures that the best talent gravitates to companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, who actually produce things that matter in the IRL, so society is better off.
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Rinkles posted:How are you going to attend a prerelease otherwise? Forget my DCI every time I go then get a new one.
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mandatory lesbian posted:also this kind of editing is passive-aggressive bullshit, make a new post so i don't have to rely on other people to quote it to know you responded to me lmfbo "passive-aggressive bullshit", did someone poo poo in your christmas stocking?
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mandatory lesbian posted:i never would have saw it if rabidsquid hadn't quoted it, i don't think you can get more passive-aggressive then responding to someone in a way specifically meant to not alert them lol if you don't think that when people do that it's just out of laziness or habit, and not out of some deliberate attempt to deceive a stranger on the internet.
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mandatory lesbian posted:editing isn't any harder then quoting, and if it's a habit its a bad one it's just weird that your instinct is jumping to assume that it was done as an extremely lame and unnecessary "gotcha" when it's something that people do all over these dang forums (without a hint of passive-aggressiveness).
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Terrible Horse posted:I was playing as smuggly as i could but hey, variance is part of the game. Sometimes cards that do damage just beat smugness. Haha, well, you win some ya loose some
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Terrible Horse posted:By the way, I didn't think it was possible but this art is even worse than Origins Yeah, agreed.
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I've enjoyed grinding Jeskai black matches in modo standard leagues these last few weeks 
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While the original incarnation with Mantis Rider and Dig's felt powerful if clunky -- and had a surprising number of matches where I felt I was always on the precipice of just folding if I didn't draw just right or get my mana sequenced absolutely perfectly -- the versions with Monastery Mentor + Treasure Cruise feel almost unfair in comparison. I never feel like a dog and just spend matches grinding people to utter dust under a pile of value, cards, and monk tokens. Love standard!
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