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Mat Cauthon posted:I thought they said passive abilities on Planeswalkers was specific to War of the Spark and not something they want to make an evergreen design thing? They literally said the exact opposite of that. Well, I guess not the exact opposite. It's a deciduous mechanic that will keep coming back where it makes sense, even without being a big theme of a particular set.
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ilmucche posted:I would love for one set to not have any spoilers and to walk into the prerelease completely blind. Could you imagine someone cracking a pack and screaming "They reprinted jace tms!!!" In practice what this really means is everything still gets spoiled, but instead of using spoilers to build hype and encourage small-time content creators, all the spoilers come from stores that are unscrupulous enough to open product early.
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InterrupterJones posted:This is true, but I feel like I've seen lists in the past with multiple iterations of some archetypes. I mostly skimmed through this list and did a Ctrl+F to find which decks were more represented than others, such as SFM decks. All this really tells you is that the Stoneforge package fits into more different decks. There could have been more Seismic Swans 5-0s than Stoneforge Mystic ones, and the data would be the same.
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Farseek was a cool ramp spell in OG ravnica that wouldn't have been as cool if the shocklands weren't typed.
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this looks like good fun magic as richard garfield intended it
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Aug 31, 2019 18:11
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It's really good and shows that the looting ban was warranted and not excessive - graveyard decks can still exist, and still win, but they're not so dominant that people have to dedicate half their sideboard to hate cards just to stand a chance.
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Goose isn't great but is still a better 1-mana accelerant than that 0/3 that lets you make another land drop.
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A 3/3 with flying and haste is disappointing to you?
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Sep 4, 2019 06:47
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Sampatrick posted:It has more text than that It's all optional text, so it certainly can't be worse than if it didn't have that text at all.
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Sep 4, 2019 06:52
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In any case, if fairies follow their usual theme of having crappy bodies with powerful etb effects, "each player sacrifices a creature" is going to feel pretty close to "your opponent sacrifices a creature", which is very nice on a hasty evasive thing. The discard mode being optional is especially nice (you only need to use it when you're hellbent or have a card you don't mind discarding - while your opponent needs to choose whether they answer it before they find out whether you intend to use it or not), and the draw mode doubles as a secret +1 damage mode to help close out the game if you think you can answer whatever your opponent draws.
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Sep 4, 2019 07:01
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Kurtofan posted:Look at Rankle's card number. It says 356... Is that like a card from the brawl decks/ pw decks ? The "M" is still exactly where you'd expect it to be if it read "356/XXX", so I think it's that they're not wanting to spoil what the actual number is yet.
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Sep 4, 2019 07:10
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You should probably treat that more as a mana rock with late-game upside than trying to build around the draw-7. And a 3-mana rock that doesn't even fix your colours is a bit dubious. But boy, that's a lot of upside when it does go off.
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Sep 4, 2019 08:38
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Maybe they'll do a functional reprint without that nonsense, and then we can run 8blossom in Modern. (It still won't be good)
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Sep 4, 2019 09:28
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GoutPatrol posted:Did you forget about the one 4 months ago? Dreadhorde Invasion doesn't really count, since 3 evasive 1/1s over 3 turns is better than a 3/3 that can never productively attack against anything.
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Tibalt posted:It's a five mana do nothing enchantment if you play it into an empty board, and a 5 mana Anthem if you don't have a critical mass of Knights. The floor is way too low to call it absolutely loving bonkers. a card that churns out 3/3s every turn is absolutely loving bonkers in limited, even if it's not good to enough to instantly win the game when you have an empty board and are facing down lethal
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Sep 4, 2019 15:50
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I still remember that time I got blown out by my opponent using Devour Flesh to answer my Akroan Horse. Good times.
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Kinda weird that they wrote that as a 0/3 instead of a */3. Or is that a screenshot from it being in play in Arena?
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i guess getting to cast Repulse on turn 3 is just too much for the format to bear
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Sep 5, 2019 06:46
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Also, since the removed-from-the-freaking-game-forever zone counts as "outside the game", you're now allowed to Wish for those cards just like you used to be able to.
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Sep 5, 2019 15:57
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The whole point of templating it that way is so that your opponent can't kill whatever you're targeting in order to deny you your card draw.
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Sep 7, 2019 22:59
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Eej posted:All you gotta say is you can cast Dive Down after declaring how damage is assigned but before damage is dealt. Dive Down cannot be cast in response to damage. No you can't? You can cast Dive Down after blocking order is chosen, but assigning damage happens at the same time it's actually dealt with no room to respond in between.
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Sep 7, 2019 23:10
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:There's no priority round in between ordering blockers and assigning damage. So step-by-step: This is wrong. You do not assign damage numbers when you choose the blocking order. You just choose the order. When assigning damage at the start of the combat damage step, you have to respect the order you chose, but you can assign the damage any way you like as long as that order is respected.
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:Good point, updated my above comment to distinguish between blocking order and damage assignment. It's still wrong. Your headline statement is inconsistent with your detailed outline, and neither of them are correct! ilmucche's understanding was completely correct. Here it is again, broken out into steps with players getting priority added: -- Declare Attackers step: Player A attacks with a 4/4 Each player gets priority -- Declare Blockers step: Player B blocks with 2 2/2s Player A orders the blockers as "I'll hit creature 1, then 2" but doesn't assign damage yet Each player gets priority. Player B gives +0/+3 to creature 1. -- Combat Damage step: Player A has to assign lethal damage to creature 1 before they can assign any to creature 2, so they assign and deal 4 damage to creature 1 and both defenders survive.
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Sep 8, 2019 00:58
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That is a very good Mana Leak.
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Sep 9, 2019 12:01
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Nobody is drafting on mtgo, so there's basically zero supply of these cards.
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Sep 10, 2019 09:00
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Desecration Demon was, in fact, Quite Good, and this seems even better in many matchups.
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Sep 10, 2019 13:53
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It's a solid limited card, easy two-for-one early and still an evasive creature later. There's a bit of tension if you draw it late in whether you just want to play the creature and start poking in, or hang on to try and get value from the counter.
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Sep 10, 2019 17:13
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Huxley posted:It just feels like they're being really careful, because of all the ones we've seen there's been only one side of the split that would be a constructed playable on its own, and even that wouldn't be a guaranteed windmill 4-of. If one side of the split is constructed playable on it's own, then the card is really good because it's constructed playable with even more good stuff tacked on. Like, having a powerful constructed-playable spell and then letting you also play a middling creature afterwards as a bonus doesn't make the spell worse, it makes it better.
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Sep 10, 2019 17:26
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Schneider Heim posted:I was wondering why I don't really see MtG fan merch in my local cons when I read up that WotC straight-up disallows it? It's still true, right? They make money from licensing the brand.
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Sep 11, 2019 08:15
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An incredibly practical lance, with attachments that stab your own horse in the head.
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Voyager I posted:The card has the potential to do powerful things for 1 mana, but the fact that it doesn't do anything without support is a very serious drawback. Good decks want to be made of cards that are individually strong in addition to having synergy with the rest of their game plan and are leery of cards that require payoffs to contribute. It's better than a bunch of the dorky 1-drops that Cavalcade is already playing.
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Sep 12, 2019 02:14
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This is something good to do with your Food tokens, even if you don't have any explicit food synergy.
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Sickening posted:I feel like haggle is unique at 1 cmc right? Depending on how unique you want to be, Insolent Neonate can do the same 1-mana discard-and-draw.
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what does it do that's particularly good against tokens?
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They've spent a card (and a turn, if it's early on) not putting any pressure on you in order to play it though, so it doesn't really seem like the hugest deal if you're playing a deck that only draws one card a turn? You still get to advance the board on your turn and Path/Push the opponent's creature on their turn.
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Sep 13, 2019 09:25
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One of the lands in this cycle is probably gonna be a good toolbox land for Modern, that you can find with one of your fetches when you need it.
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Sep 13, 2019 14:47
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That ritual is basically made for Dragonstorm.
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Sep 13, 2019 16:51
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It's like an escher painting. The visual cues of the arc tell you that the flying dino is in front of the one on the ground, but where they actually overlap the one on the ground is drawn in front.
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Sep 14, 2019 11:16
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Kinda funny how Dimir's theme this set is "cards that you don't put in the same deck as Ashiok".
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I think the 2-mana counter/removal is mostly going to replace the 3-mana counterspells.
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