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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Core Set 2020 - Red Head Wins
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Ghired and Savinne seem like "here's a less than optimal commander for this specific strategy, but it lets you play a color you couldn't before" commanders, which I guess is honestly a pretty good design space to take advantage of, even if it's not terribly exciting. I wouldn't be surprised if both of their decks contain better two-color commanders than them.
The other two could be cool depending on how solid their deck support is. Hopefully Wizards learned from last year and isn't going to skimp on the 99, because Morph and Madness both desperately need an influx of meaningful cards and venerable reprints to work.
The other two could be cool depending on how solid their deck support is. Hopefully Wizards learned from last year and isn't going to skimp on the 99, because Morph and Madness both desperately need an influx of meaningful cards and venerable reprints to work.
C19 - Scaretiller
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Could be them trying to extend the power set out of mono white and into Boros I guess?
I recently got back into Magic with the Spellslingers set. It has a code for Arena that can be used twice, I think ("You and a friend can unlock..."). I know they are basic cards, but if anyone would like the code DM me.
It's usually fine but it's a faux pas during spoiler season. It's commander spoilers week.
C19 - Rayami, First of the Fallen; Pendant of Prosperity; Thespian's Stage
Some new spoilers:
There are some other cards spoiled too, but waiting for translations before posting.
Green can do absolutely nothing with non-creature spells, which cripples it in any other format other than Standard.
C19 - Path of Return (?); Blue Split Second (?)
I have no idea if these translations are accurate:
Path of Return [GG]
Sorcery
Choose one -
-Return target permanent from your graveyard to your hand.
-Add your commander from your command zone to your hand.
Entwine (2) (Choose both if you paid the entwine cost.)
(Card Name?)
Split second
Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then player who controls that spell may choose new targets for it.
Path of Return [GG]
Sorcery
Choose one -
-Return target permanent from your graveyard to your hand.
-Add your commander from your command zone to your hand.
Entwine (2) (Choose both if you paid the entwine cost.)
(Card Name?)
Split second
Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then player who controls that spell may choose new targets for it.
We now live in a world where it's always spoiler seasons or spoiler season is approaching. We might want to re-approach this rule
You are probably right, we may want to rethink it, but it is the current rule.
I personally think we should make some kind of approved header image you put above and below a fake card labeling it as such.
No i meant cards that can answer those kinds of cards, there's a reason why green is not very good in cEDH
since when is green bad in cEDH? Beast Within is one of those cards that couple as wincon and interaction and green is hardly lacking in representation in cEDH either.
C19 - Scroll of Fate
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C19 - Ixidron
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Free "morphing"
Reprint from Time Spiral block.
No more Terese Nielsen art.
Having Manifest "it's face down but can unmorph for it's casting cost" and Ixidron "they are just turned upside down and can't unmorph unless they have morph" is really non-intuitive for a preconstructed deck. Like, if you aren't using those morph or manifest tokens, it's going to be a nightmare to track what can and can not be flipped face up.
That's true. I guess they'll probably give a ton of tokens for that very reason.
Free "morphing"
Good shit. Jealous I didn't design this myself.
C19 - Vesuvan Shapeshifter; Gift of Doom; Volrath, the Shapestealer
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C19 - Deathmist Raptor; Bane of the Living; Grismold, the Dreadsower; Thieving Amalgam
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Deathmist Raptor, now a dinosaur
Reprint with new art.
Might be from the plane of Eldraine.
Ape Snake
Probably but didn't they sheepishly walk back their commitment to "naga" after it was too late? I could be misremembering.
Great Creature Update Part 2 someday? Please? Or just rule naga=snake and we'll be good.
C19 - Morph reprints; Vraska the Unseen; Apex Altisaur
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We had a naga in War of the Spark.
Three reprints
Three more reprints
And a new card
The enrage ability triggers when it fights, so it's a board wipe if it's indestructible.
Hell yes, totally building Volrath just because it's fucking Volrath. Shapeshifter tribal let's goooooooo
I'm reading about the next expansion, Throne, and it sounds great. Did War of the Spark close out a cycle? Should I just wait to really jump back in until Throne?
Guessing at the time of the artist brief it wasn't a 6/7. The art doesn't match such a big creature.
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War of the Spark closed a big ongoing storyline, yes. As for getting into the game, it depends on what you want to do. The newest set is Core Set 2020, which is aimed at beginners. The only reason you'd want to wait for Throne is if you play Standard, since the sets that are legal in the Standard format will change with its release. Otherwise, you can get into the game whenever.
Yes, (casual) Standard at the local shop, and probably whatever jank at the dinner table. Though, I am not going to chase metas/tourneys now, just going to ease myself back in the game. I spent way too much money during the release of Ixalan (the last set I played), and I'm not doing that again.
C19 - Nantuko Vigilante
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i decided to buy decks for once and i'm glad it happened to be the year with cards for steal/use other people's shit sultai, my actual favorite archetype
though maybe i should have got atraxa that one time
though maybe i should have got atraxa that one time
C19 - Thought Sponge
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Dark Metroid from Metroid Prime Echoes
Better or worse than Alms Collector in Ephara?
C19 - Rare lands; full morph deck
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C19 - Thalia's Geistcaller
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I feel like this deck is kinda awful. Nothing looks exciting to me.
This is probably a very shit opinion, but I hated EDH when I played previously. I'm staying far away from that now that I'm back.
Is it? A LOT of the commanders printed for EDH have a history to be broken or majorly annoying. Like Eminence 2 years ago, none of them are unbeatable but free resources are obnoxious to fight against. Like Partner that's incredibly overpowered in a format that's mostly midrange piles. Like Meren, like animar,... Trash is good means you can still build around them and they won't build themselves and when you show up to a table people won't groan.
The store I frequented was basically all-EDH, all the time. And as I was a new player, I guess I thought everyone just loved the format (hasty generalizations and all that).
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