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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Core Set 2020 - Red Head Wins
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Has there been an Accumulated Knowledge cycle? I missed like 80% of the sets between Onslaught and Amonhket.
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There were two cards in Shadow over Innistrad
And one in Ravnica Allegiance.
I believe they had one back in the day.
Life Burst, Aether Burst, Mind Burst, Flame Burst, Muscle Burst
Oh man, how did I forget about Aether Burst and the creepy ass stock photo art on Life Burst.
Leyline of Anticipation
I remembered there was one but I'll be honest I had to look it up. I also wasn't playing as much during Odyssey block.
Field of the Dead is actually an interesting kill condition in Esper control- you easily will have at least 6 other land names out, and this is uncounterable, basically unkillable, and gives great inevitability.
This is a weird one.
Hanged Executioner
Pacifism
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Pulse of Murasa; Dungeon Geists
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Unchained Berserker; Legion's End
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We're indeed getting a protection cycle. Not sure what this is hosing.
RIP Adanto Vanguard. And more token hate too, I suppose.
We're indeed getting a protection cycle. Not sure what this is hosing.
RIP Adanto Vanguard. And more token hate too, I suppose.
Legion's End seems pretty good. That feels like it might become a staple and definitely sideboard material if a token deck gets close to tier 1. Otherwise, I'm not sure black wouldn't rather run instant speed, non-exile 2CMC removal that's more likely to hit anything.
We're indeed getting a protection cycle. Not sure what this is hosing.
The Teferis, I guess? Seems pretty strong against current Esper Control builds. Protection is a huge upgrade to Hexproof from X due to Hero of Precinct One.
Protection back to evergreen; Bone Splinters; Captivating Gyre
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fedosu asked:
Your article on Core 2020 specifies that there are no non-evergreen keywords.Blightbeetle has Protection from green. Did R&D change their mind on protection being removed from evergreen? Or am I misremembering and you were just using it way less?
Protection is back to evergreen on a probationary status.
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malfegor-bv asked:
protection is back? i mean, i love that, but how come?
1) It didn't technically go away. It got moved from evergreen to deciduous, so it just showed up less.
2) The reason it's flirting with returning to evergreen is the needs of play design. I'll talk about it a bit in next week's article.
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This is pretty surprising, though it being Play Design's call makes sense. It loudly says "use this to handle X color decks".
Your article on Core 2020 specifies that there are no non-evergreen keywords.Blightbeetle has Protection from green. Did R&D change their mind on protection being removed from evergreen? Or am I misremembering and you were just using it way less?
Protection is back to evergreen on a probationary status.
21 notes Jun 18th, 2019
malfegor-bv asked:
protection is back? i mean, i love that, but how come?
1) It didn't technically go away. It got moved from evergreen to deciduous, so it just showed up less.
2) The reason it's flirting with returning to evergreen is the needs of play design. I'll talk about it a bit in next week's article.
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This is pretty surprising, though it being Play Design's call makes sense. It loudly says "use this to handle X color decks".
I, for one, can't wait. I loved Theros. I know it has a reputation for being a forgettable Limited format, but I was way into it. Bestow was such a fun mechanic.
I don't think you can reword it to fuck teferi beyond saying teferi,time reveler loses all abilities that aren't loyalty abilities.
Repeated Reverberation
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Teferi 3, Narset, Thought Erasure, new Nissa, and Chainwhirler were bad mistakes to print. They're all far too good (or warping, in Teferi and Narset's case) for their costs.
Yeah Kaalia is pretty good for the next couple months. After that...
Wolfrider's Saddle; Season of Growth
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Neat, colored artifact that also sort of has living weapon.
And with that green enchantment, definitely getting heroic this Standard.
Mana fixing is too good so that might color my view, since hitting it turn 2 feels effortless.
Two mana for perfect information and perfect hand disruption with surveil one (useful!) tacked on for giggles. I'm not a fan of cards like this. Super annoying, yeah, but the annoyance is from it being an auto 4-of at the cost and too powerful for its cost imo.
I don't enjoy playing the card or playing against the card.
I didn't live through Thoughtseize but I would've hated it lol.
you don't really notice the games when the control player dies with thought erasures in hand or casts it against a hellbent opponent just for the surveil 1
i played the annoying boring skill-less creatureless esper control for a fair bit
azcanta? broken
teferi hero of dominaria? broken
lots of thought erasures? a liability
magic is dumb when your hand gets stripped and then you draw into lands, but that's the problem of the game design, not really the problem of thought erasure. a removal spell or counterspell would likely have the same effect as a discard spell in those games
i played the annoying boring skill-less creatureless esper control for a fair bit
azcanta? broken
teferi hero of dominaria? broken
lots of thought erasures? a liability
magic is dumb when your hand gets stripped and then you draw into lands, but that's the problem of the game design, not really the problem of thought erasure. a removal spell or counterspell would likely have the same effect as a discard spell in those games
Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer
I'm a little surprised (but definitely excited) to see Wolfrider's Saddle. I noticed that nearly all the Auras in Modern Horizons had some soft of way to make up for the potential card disadvantage they usually set you up for. I thought maybe that was just a special thing for MH since it was way more powerful in general than a typical set, but it looks like that may be a regular thing going forward. Really interesting design, not sure how if it will affect Constructed at all but it makes Auras playable in draft.
The set overall looks surprisingly fun, M19 draft was pretty dull but it looks likes commons and uncommon are a little more pushed here, War of the Spark-style.
Edit: Just realized the Saddle isn't actually an Aura, but the point stands, seems like they're actively trying to make both auras and equipment more enticing.
The set overall looks surprisingly fun, M19 draft was pretty dull but it looks likes commons and uncommon are a little more pushed here, War of the Spark-style.
Edit: Just realized the Saddle isn't actually an Aura, but the point stands, seems like they're actively trying to make both auras and equipment more enticing.
Thought erasure is a tilting card but it's mostly fair and fine can definitely get stuck with a couple in hand doing nothing or topdecking it for no value.
Only way to get certain cards before they generate insane value since countermagic is nigh unplayable atm.
Still I can reassure you that despite 4 thought erasures and up to 27 lands you can still get flooded or screwed.
Only way to get certain cards before they generate insane value since countermagic is nigh unplayable atm.
Still I can reassure you that despite 4 thought erasures and up to 27 lands you can still get flooded or screwed.
I think it's exciting that they gave play design Protection as a tool, seems like they have a vision where they want standard to be.
Cavalier of Dawn (?)
Cavalier of dawn
Creature - Elemental Knight
Vigilance
When ~ enters the battlefield, destroy up to one target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token.
When ~ dies, return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.
Feels mediocre
I honestly don't know why, but I would have liked to see Field of the Dead be a Desert subtype.
I guess I just feel like if a Core printing looks like it belongs to a set, it should have the proper attributes of that set.
I guess I just feel like if a Core printing looks like it belongs to a set, it should have the proper attributes of that set.
Knight of the Ebon Legion
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