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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Guilds of Ravnica - We built this city on blocks of gold
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Gods no, they keep killing my Angels!
Gonna go Boros then Dimir for pre-releases.
Standard is fine and good if you, like 95% of the people, play at FNM. If you are looking to grind PTQs then there are only a few tier one decks but in my experience at the FNM level there is all kinds of fun decks to play.
FNM depends on location. At my local game store, prior to it closing down last Fall, the meta was extremely competitive.
Standard until rotation is pretty hilariously warped around both a small number of problem cards and the unusually large number of basic utility cards. Like, premium removal has to be instant speed exiling removal because of Hazoret, with anything else basically dropping straight down to sideboard quality. At the other extreme, you've got basically a mono-blue Counterspells Tribal control deck in the format because there's just so many block-specific and general counters in circulation that you don't have to denature your deck with silly stuff like non-counterspell cards.
Not Ravnica related, but I have slowly been looking into the stuff released between playing Magic as a child and now.
Came across this fine lady here
...and she's not like the coolest ever?!
Anyone have any idea if the story might touch Phyrexians again at some point? At least there's Dominaria and the references there..
Came across this fine lady here
...and she's not like the coolest ever?!
Anyone have any idea if the story might touch Phyrexians again at some point? At least there's Dominaria and the references there..
Ol' Scytheface is what convinced me to make an Anthems Tribal EDH deck.
The other Praetors are pretty neat, too. Uh, well, most of them. The red one's kind of just a dude due to relative power drift in creature cards.
The other Praetors are pretty neat, too. Uh, well, most of them. The red one's kind of just a dude due to relative power drift in creature cards.
Phyrexians could come back if bolas is ever dealt with. Probably in a year/year and a half at least if it's not eldrazi again
Not Ravnica related, but I have slowly been looking into the stuff released between playing Magic as a child and now.
Came across this fine lady here
...and she's not like the coolest ever?!
Anyone have any idea if the story might touch Phyrexians again at some point? At least there's Dominaria and the references there..
They HAVE to be dealing with the Phyrexians at some point soon, hopefully.
Also, she has one of the coolest promos ever printed. Entirely in Phyrexian.
Not Ravnica related, but I have slowly been looking into the stuff released between playing Magic as a child and now.
Came across this fine lady here
...and she's not like the coolest ever?!
Anyone have any idea if the story might touch Phyrexians again at some point? At least there's Dominaria and the references there..
I started playing Magic during the Phyrexia days and she was a staple of a very annoying deck I played at the time, which basically involved having my creatures refuse to die until she came out and buffed them all.
Stopped playing in about 2013 due to the money I was throwing at it and recently got back in thanks to a beta code for Arena. I am perfectly fine with not having the cards in real-life if I'm getting to collect and play them all for free.
Currently running a pretty effective Red/Black pirate deck that focuses on getting a bunch of damage output, as well as creating some multi-colour artifacts with Captain Lannery Storm so that I can summon Vraska, Relic Seeker for the endgame.
Hostage Taker and Captivating Crew are also in there to use the opponent's own hard-hitters against them.
Unfortunately with the new Ravnica set rolling in, this deck is going to be short-lived, but it's reignited my love for playing it. I think I can keep up a good balance of using Arena to sate my Magic urges and not go bankrupt, whilst using the upcoming Keyforge as a way to play a CCG with friends whilst moderating my spending.
Back to ravnica, eh?
Wizards got me right where they want me
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Very interesting. Whoever is behind these developments deserves some recognition.
Wizards got me right where they want me
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Very interesting. Whoever is behind these developments deserves some recognition.
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Also: I may have only been back playing for a week and a half now, but fuck Teferi. People can spam "Good game" at me as much as they like once they have me on lockdown, I'll make them play out the remaining ten minutes of sequence.
Use an unfun deck, get an unfun response.
Use an unfun deck, get an unfun response.
He wouldn't have been OP at 2UURR, but the mana cost is certainly neat lookin.
Edit: uhh that Dream Eater certainly is...something
Edit: uhh that Dream Eater certainly is...something
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The split cards look really strong. Find's effect is usually four mana, right?
Niv-Mizzet triggering on every spell cast instead of just your own is neat in a control mirror.
Not sure what's going on with Dream Eater at mythic.
MaRo's article has a lot of interesting tidbits.
Niv-Mizzet triggering on every spell cast instead of just your own is neat in a control mirror.
Not sure what's going on with Dream Eater at mythic.
MaRo's article has a lot of interesting tidbits.
Both the lich and sphinx feel wrong at mythic. Wrong cost or wrong stats or wrong something, but just wrong.
Find is better soul salvage (2B but common)
Find is better soul salvage (2B but common)
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Um how is this card realBoth the lich and sphinx feel wrong at mythic. Wrong cost or wrong stats or wrong something, but just wrong.
Find is better soul salvage (2B but common)
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MaRo's article mentions that every guild that gets a planeswalker card is allied with Bolas and that three will be in Ravnica Allegiance. I guess this means Azorius is one of the Bolas guilds, and the book cover did show a person with math magic we don't know.
Orzhov will definitely be Bolas aligned, and will have Kaya as its planeswalker. Rakdos with our boy Tibalt incoming?
Orzhov will definitely be Bolas aligned, and will have Kaya as its planeswalker. Rakdos with our boy Tibalt incoming?
Are you in the beta for Arena yet? If not I can get you a key.
Have the game, but I'm not feeling how the game works, at least when I played the game some months ago I had a lot of issues with how the cards played, or explanations of the new mechanics, maybe I should try it again, how much has improved the game since the last 4 months?
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First is a reprint for those unaware.
Hypothesizzle is an awesome card in limited for shizzle
Second is a really interesting design. I saw some concern that this would be too complicated for common, but the play flow is pretty straightforward. Especially since the "when you do" wording means you don't choose a target until after you discard a card.
They don't show off all the "good" cards on day one or even near the start of spoiler season. Let's give it some time :P
Ravnica is my favorite MtG setting/plane, and I've liked it less each time because they won't stop weaving all the rest of the bullshit into it. Ravnica was cool because it was sealed off from everything else and had 10 different motivations. But ooh now look it's the Gatewatch and now Bolas is the motivation and gaah who cares. Hard pass.
Excellent reprint. It's crept up to $15 over the years. I'd like to see WotC doing more of this sort of thing. Not all modern reprints have to be big money cards. Just chip away at the ones that are overpriced by $5-10, and then wow us with a splashy reprint here and there.
They added a tutorial like a month or two ago (and also new card sets).
Do you think it's good enough to enable 3 and 4 color decks? Along with shocks and checklands?
I returned to the game when Dragon's Maze was released, so I don't really have a great memory of whether it was played in Standard last time, but I doubt it. I remember buying a copy for bulk prices at the time. Its current price is based on Commander demand.
I'm willing to go on record and say that I think Dark Confidant would be perfectly fine to print into Standard—and would likely be no better than Glint-sleeve Siphoner currently is (which is pretty good, but nowhere near warping.)
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Looks like Selesnya will have an aura subtheme, looking at the big hexproof guy we already know about.
We're getting hybrid cards besides the split cards. Sunhome Stalwart looks pretty good.
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