I've been having fun with UW fliers. Though it is a bit on rails.
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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Throne of Eldraine - Will and Rowan's Excellent Adventure
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I've been having fun with UW fliers. Though it is a bit on rails.
I'm mostly running gruul midrange right now, but figuring out what to replace some of my old staples pre-ToE with has been tough.
Frame is because this is the version in promo packs (which stores give out as prizes). Promo packs replace FNM promos.
Anyway, weird to see a green transformation card.
If this seems familiar, that's because this is Oko's ability, but in spell form.
That seems...really good? In limited I think I'm quite happy with this. My green beaters will outclass the 3/3. And it answers bombs and fliers. I think I'd always want one of these in my deck.
I know my Abzan deck pisses Cavalcade players off. Lulls then into thinking they've won and then stabilizes like crazy.
I feel like it's not quite "premium" removal because there is an upper limit on how many of these I want. Probably 2?
not sure whether to be annoyed or happy that this doesn't help cast hydroid krasis for X=4 (it only generates green mana)
Foreboding Fruit; Locthwain Paladin
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Interesting. I like these equipments that are basically auras, except you can move them around later.
So Tiny; Deathless Knight; Locthwain Gargoyle
Return of the Wildspeaker; Festive Funeral; Happily Ever After; Resolute Rider; Mystic Sanctuary
Love to print wincons that require the game to come to a complete halt as you sort through your graveyard to find out if you've won.
(No, but seriously, what a weird card. I kinda dig it).
(No, but seriously, what a weird card. I kinda dig it).
It's going into my Abzan Tokens sideboard. There are games where I'm sitting at 70+ life but my board's stalled out and my deck is near empty.
It legitimately might be a card in Modern Taking Turns, haha. It already runs a ton of pseudo-Time Walks that you're trying to reuse with Snapcaster anyway, even if it doesn't exactly work with Temporal Mastery.
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Seems good
Also, just realized that Return of the Wildspeaker is two slightly altered versions of loyalty abilities from two monogreen Garruk planeswalkers.
I know golgari has enough of a subtheme with lifegain (usually as a part of the aristocrat subtheme with saprolings or the like) as to not be unusual, but while I like the concept, it feels a little weird on that knight?
Albeit, the abilities the orzhov knight has makes sense as-is, and golgari's got the graveyard theme down pat....
If nothing else, food tokens certainly create enough of an 'outlet' for it that it presumably works fine, just....feels a bit wonky, I guess?
Albeit, the abilities the orzhov knight has makes sense as-is, and golgari's got the graveyard theme down pat....
If nothing else, food tokens certainly create enough of an 'outlet' for it that it presumably works fine, just....feels a bit wonky, I guess?
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papillon94 asked: Oh I can already hear the barrage of asks about "BUT DIDN'T YOU SAY GREEN TRANSFORMING CREATURES WAS A BREAK!?" from people who seem to think you're some sort of absolute monarch. There are times I really don't envy your role of public face. That being said, Kenrith's Transformation. How'd the discussion on that go down in the Council of Colors?
WARNING: THRONE OF ELDRAINE STORY SPOILER
It was a pretty big discussion. There was a key story point where Oko turns the king into an Elk. The set design team wanted to capture the story point. The idea was a card that transformed a creature into a 3/3 Elk. Normally, the card would be blue, but the hole to fill it was in green.
Green does do transformation but normally only on its own creatures. A straight up spell that works on the opponent's creatures is a break, but the proposal was an aura because in the story the spell gets undone.
We'd had auras which had completely neutered the creature turning it into a 0/4 or a land and those had been breaks, but a 3/3 was more substantial.
After much talk we decided it was more big bend than a break due to all the particulars and decided to allow it as it was key to communicating the story. (We don't do big bends unless there is a strong set reason.)
September 19, 2019
kidror asked: Just wanted to let you know that I like white getting "each player draws a card" to help it draw more cards without covering its weakness. Sorry for all the people who seem to be upset despite being warned about it being a minor change
We've been taking about how to give white card draw in a way that was flavorfully white and didn't undermine its weakness. Everyone draw gives white the ability to get answers while giving the other player's the chance to get more threats.
In retrospect, I shouldn't have said anything and just let people enjoy this card when it previewed. Even with all the stressing of it being a minor thing, I could see people's expectations rising. So, sorry about that. A kessoned learned for me.
September 19, 2019
WARNING: THRONE OF ELDRAINE STORY SPOILER
It was a pretty big discussion. There was a key story point where Oko turns the king into an Elk. The set design team wanted to capture the story point. The idea was a card that transformed a creature into a 3/3 Elk. Normally, the card would be blue, but the hole to fill it was in green.
Green does do transformation but normally only on its own creatures. A straight up spell that works on the opponent's creatures is a break, but the proposal was an aura because in the story the spell gets undone.
We'd had auras which had completely neutered the creature turning it into a 0/4 or a land and those had been breaks, but a 3/3 was more substantial.
After much talk we decided it was more big bend than a break due to all the particulars and decided to allow it as it was key to communicating the story. (We don't do big bends unless there is a strong set reason.)
September 19, 2019
kidror asked: Just wanted to let you know that I like white getting "each player draws a card" to help it draw more cards without covering its weakness. Sorry for all the people who seem to be upset despite being warned about it being a minor change
We've been taking about how to give white card draw in a way that was flavorfully white and didn't undermine its weakness. Everyone draw gives white the ability to get answers while giving the other player's the chance to get more threats.
In retrospect, I shouldn't have said anything and just let people enjoy this card when it previewed. Even with all the stressing of it being a minor thing, I could see people's expectations rising. So, sorry about that. A kessoned learned for me.
September 19, 2019
I'll be slotting it into my Yuriko deck. It's great there.
Found the card that's showing up in every prerelease for me. Probably my promo.
that everyone draws a card somehow made MaRo think it was a minor thing to help white in EDH contrary to completely unplayable shows all you need to know how much MaRo's opinion is worth regarding the format.
He'd be right if there was just 1 other player but in EDH now you've maybe drawn 1 answer and 3 other people had a chance to draw a threat.
He'd be right if there was just 1 other player but in EDH now you've maybe drawn 1 answer and 3 other people had a chance to draw a threat.
Yeah - it's even worse because you've 'only' just cantripped, while providing free cards to the other players (while also simultaneously setting yourself up to be a target with your 'wincon' out on the battlefield) - It's actually card disadvantage, lol. Why anyone would play this outside of some 5-color jank/group hug is beyond me.
I get that one of white's weakness is supposed to be card draw, but geez, even ignoring the convoluted win-con (which means you need to be playing a 5-color deck anyways, aka not mono-white) that's not a great card at all.
Meanwhile green gets another lignify, and the green player is usually both the one who's usually playing bigger creatures, and generally has the best variety of enchantment removal.
If you've built your deck correctly then whatever nonland you draw will either help your wincon or deal directly with whatever they draw.
My Darien deck doesn't give a flying fuck about threats from other players because I have tons of targeted removal/wraths and want them to damage me with their threats anyway. Everyone else's card is inconsequential if the one that I draw locks up the game.
My Darien deck doesn't give a flying fuck about threats from other players because I have tons of targeted removal/wraths and want them to damage me with their threats anyway. Everyone else's card is inconsequential if the one that I draw locks up the game.
I feel like Happily Ever After was made for a Kenrith, the Returned King EDH deck, which seems only fitting.
that's presuming everyone else built their deck incorrectly, or they would be able to answer anything you put forth as well.
Plus you've let not only one of them, but up to 3 (or more) other players do that - so when the blue player draws a counterspell, or the black gets toxic deluge, the green player gets a krosan grip or a reclamation sage, etc...the odds aren't in your favor - and that's not even counting the other players gaining life also.
There's maybe a bit of political 'goodwill' in having the other players get stuff, but that worth is really, really subjective.
Obviously it's all hypothetical discussion, but even though Maro did say he didn't mean to overhype the card, it doesn't really 'address' white's weakness in that regard - outside of maybe adhering to the 'white is the equalizer' aspect of the color pie.
The card has some edgecase use, but with the 5 color requirement, unless some wonky shenanigans happen you wouldn't even really be running it for the wincon aspect in Darien anyways - and white has several better cantrips and lifegain options.
(As a sidenote, darien would be hilarious to suggest to my buddy to stick in his oloro deck).
This is probably the case, yeah.
something I would have liked more would have been a card that let every player draw up to 7 cards, not as a wheel but just drawing the difference between the current and a full hand of 7. Fits into equalizing while also being really good vs draw control decks
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Throne of Eldraine Deluxe Collection
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Magic stream announced a Throne of Eldraine Mythic Edition, now called Deluxe Collection.
This will be $449.99 and go on sale on October 2nd. It will be limited, but will have international shipping.
This will be $449.99 and go on sale on October 2nd. It will be limited, but will have international shipping.
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From the Deluxe Collection box opening on the stream, with them opening a Collector Booster.
Reaper of Night - 5BB
Creature - Specter (Common)
Whenever Reaper of Night attacks, if defending player has two or fewer cards in hand, it gains flying until end of turn.
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Harvest Fear - 3B
Sorcery - Adventure
Target opponent discards two cards.
Not great, but 3B discard two cards getting you any kind of big creature that doesn't have a downside isn't bad.
Reaper of Night - 5BB
Creature - Specter (Common)
Whenever Reaper of Night attacks, if defending player has two or fewer cards in hand, it gains flying until end of turn.
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Harvest Fear - 3B
Sorcery - Adventure
Target opponent discards two cards.
Not great, but 3B discard two cards getting you any kind of big creature that doesn't have a downside isn't bad.
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