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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Throne of Eldraine - Will and Rowan's Excellent Adventure
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Bonecrusher Giant seems quite good. The Adventure seems like something you would use sometimes, esp. in a matchup where you expect to be grinding, but the base of 2R for a 4/3 creature that your opponents don't want to hit with spells is already very solid.
Something's definitely going on with all of these blue artifacts/artifact synergy cards. I don't know if it's anything good or if it's just going to durdle around forever, but turning Guild Globes and Witching Wells into 4/4s could be strong if you can pull it off?
Something's definitely going on with all of these blue artifacts/artifact synergy cards. I don't know if it's anything good or if it's just going to durdle around forever, but turning Guild Globes and Witching Wells into 4/4s could be strong if you can pull it off?
Every time I've played against Nekusar that player draws all the hate, Nekusar keeps getting destroyed/exiled and they get knocked out first. That deck just annoys everyone with chip damage and puts a ton of answers into opponents' hands (assuming they brewed right and have removal).
God I wish I played with a playgroup that was better at assessing threats sometimes
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It was deliberately saved for later in the article.
No damn it, Najeela did not need one more easy ass way to go infinite.
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The Magic Mirror
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Revenge of Ravens; Irencrag Feat
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Noticed that The Magic Mirror actually does have extended art, as opposed to being zoomed and cropped.
Haven't seen a big ritual in a while. Looks like they learned their lesson from having a bunch of energy symbols in a row.
Haven't seen a big ritual in a while. Looks like they learned their lesson from having a bunch of energy symbols in a row.
Haven't seen a big ritual in a while. Looks like they learned their lesson from having a bunch of energy symbols in a row.
So functionally it's a more like a flexible Dramatic Entrance than it is a ritual. That's interesting for sure.
I think the "new" cards were actually existing cards from older sets they were going to add in small batches (as opposed to adding entire sets).
Here's the official announcement from NA Wizards: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-update-historic-2019-09-12
kind of hate when they add interesting formats but dont let you do quests on them
like if they add brawl and i cant do quests then thanks for making me waste time i guess
like if they add brawl and i cant do quests then thanks for making me waste time i guess
Power creep is an annoying thing when it's this (or Questing Beast) obvious.
A 2R 4/3 with an ability that's largely a positive and it has that utility 1R instant burn spell attached?
This is the list of 3 mana red only cards that are at least a 4/3.
There's nothing on here that doesn't have a drawback or isn't one of those transforming cards.
Mirrormade
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yeah i think it averages out, theres some cool stuff for sure but i dont see much that will change the game since the most impactful stuff either seems to require some graveyard manipulation or costs 6 mana
other than green four drops
other than green four drops
you can interact with most of these permanents
powering up stuff like this is fine
the adventure stuff is more lazy (it's just "free" card advantage), but hopefully the rates are weaker so it works out. and you still have to pay mana twice, so it's still likely to result in actual games being played
powering up stuff like this is fine
the adventure stuff is more lazy (it's just "free" card advantage), but hopefully the rates are weaker so it works out. and you still have to pay mana twice, so it's still likely to result in actual games being played
For you more Vorthos-types, TCGPlayer's YouTube channel just uploaded a nearly 40-minute video detailing the story/world of Eldraine. Yes, it's good ol' Ryan Gomez.
I'm halfway through the book. It describes her as being four color, missing red.
Yeah, I mean when stuff costs 6 or more mana it's allowed to be insane since you're really going to have to work to get to resolve it (or cheat it into play, but that's not a huge concern in Standard). That's no different in this set than anything else. The stuff to worry about is things that cost like 1-3, sometimes 4, mana, because they will reliably come down. When those cards immediately take over the game, that's a problem. The power level here seems fine, lower than War of the Spark. There are some cheap cards that seem pretty pushed (Oko), but nothing that seems as annoying as baby Teferi.
Barge In; Redcap Raiders; Mistford River Turtle; Grumgully, the Generous; Ferocity of the Wilds; Loch Dragon
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Non-human tribal cards
This is the most Shrek like creature in art yet, despite being a giant.
Seems good
And unrelated
One of the better cards in this cycle, I think.
This is the most Shrek like creature in art yet, despite being a giant.
Seems good
And unrelated
One of the better cards in this cycle, I think.
The set overall seems very strong. I feel like there's more than a few cards that people are sleeping on that are gonna end up as very powerful.
So, news that the Brawl precons are apparently so under printed that Star City Games isn't even going to bother running preorders for them is a little concerning. Same with the Collector's booster packs. This all sounds like it's going to be a pretty big clusterfuck.
The signet will surely be reprinted every time. Nothing to worry about yet.
The signet being so expensive is fucking silly, straight up. Any other 2 color 2 cmc mana rock is fine in that slot until you can get one from a Brawl deck yourself or until they print it into the ground and the price bottoms out.
Seriously wtf people be patient.
Seriously wtf people be patient.
I could see him in the set before Zendikar but I think he'll be 5 cmc and up for a while if not forever. They like him feeling big and powerful.
I'm fine with that but I thought they explicitly confirmed Garruk Tribal in Throne? Or am I misremembering
The new Garruk certainly incentivizes you to play more Garruks, but he'll be the only one in standard (that we know about) for a bit. Maybe M21 will do for G-man what M20 did for Chandra and we will get a lower cost young Garruk or two.
god the arena UI sucks sometimes
why yes i would like to get blown out of this nu standard event immediately then have to click like 10 times to re enter it
why yes i would like to get blown out of this nu standard event immediately then have to click like 10 times to re enter it
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The wolves put counters on "each Garruk" to shorten the text, nothing more, I'm pretty sure.
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Another print run was just announced, at least. Wizards has a habit of underprinting new products. I suppose another long lasting habit caused by Chronicles being over printed.
Come on guys, there was a reasonable expectation Brawl would be DOA and we would have given them a mountain of shit if they'd done a huge initial print run for a product with a high chance of failure. Yeah, they probably should have anticipated somewhat higher demand from Commander players, but it's still not entirely unreasonable to be skeptical of the continued sales viability of this product.
If they try to print Brawl stuff too often (ie, more than once a year) they're probably going to saturate the market of people poaching it for Commander cards and have the bottom drop out. I'm not going to give them too much flak for being conservative about this.
If they try to print Brawl stuff too often (ie, more than once a year) they're probably going to saturate the market of people poaching it for Commander cards and have the bottom drop out. I'm not going to give them too much flak for being conservative about this.
Yup. They know people will get tired of them when they release every set and eventually Signet will be worth nothing. People just can't wait.
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