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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Throne of Eldraine - Will and Rowan's Excellent Adventure
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These boardstates, smdh. What ever happened to winning on turn 5 or 6? (That looks like good fun though, congrats.)
In other news, this RG Adventure Phoenix deck may be what I need to fill the Faithless Looting shaped hole in my heart: https://www.channelfireball.com/art...-with-arclight-phoenix-on-turn-1-in-standard/ If only it were a bit more competitive compared to all of the turbo over the top strategies that seem to be what's working in Standard.
If only I had $1500 laying around, I could go ahead and play Legacy Jund Phoenix where the ceiling is three (3!) Arclight Phoenixes attacking on turn 1, just as Richard Garfield intended.
In other news, this RG Adventure Phoenix deck may be what I need to fill the Faithless Looting shaped hole in my heart: https://www.channelfireball.com/art...-with-arclight-phoenix-on-turn-1-in-standard/ If only it were a bit more competitive compared to all of the turbo over the top strategies that seem to be what's working in Standard.
If only I had $1500 laying around, I could go ahead and play Legacy Jund Phoenix where the ceiling is three (3!) Arclight Phoenixes attacking on turn 1, just as Richard Garfield intended.
Legacy is a one time $1500 investment then you can play that deck forever. Trying to keep up with Standard is a bigger money sink imo.
Up front or all at once? Yeah that's a lot. But total what the average standard player spends in post rotation throwaway stuff in a year, then compare that to slowly buying the cards bit by bit over time for deck that you can play for a long, long time.
Didn't pull much from a booster box this time around so to compensate I said fuck it and bought me an ayula bear tribal - commander this weekend should be interesting. My bears are HUNGRY
You can build a lot of non-blue Legacy decks for around $1000.
I totally agree. I have no interest in having a paper Standard deck when I can have every Standard deck for a year on Arena for the same price as Esper for a season or two. I'm learning MTGO too, I want to use a rental program to try out Modern and Legacy decks without needing to outright buy them. Jund Phoenix looks really cool, but if I don't like it I'd basically have to choose between switching to Reanimator (I would have the Badlands and the Bayou, the only extremely expensive cards), or having to sell off the cards. I am lucky enough to live somewhere with two stores that run weekly Legacy nights, so I would definitely get to use the cards if I did take the plunge.
People are starting to figure out my oven bullshit lol. Getting it targeted by Oko and such. Still useful and cheap enough to keep in the deck but using it more as an early drop while bulking up my other cards.
Yeah but most people who drop her try to exile the cat first which fails. That said it's still a decent trade since they have to really work to remove it.
Im probably going to buy a sealed booster box today.
Anything I should look out for? Are they still giving out the collectors booster for buying a sealed box?
Anything I should look out for? Are they still giving out the collectors booster for buying a sealed box?
My Little Pony crossover cards
if i ever have friends who dont let me play twilight sparkle or nightmare moon as my commander then i will subsequently not have friends
Their removal couldn't outpace my card draw and creature strength. My aggression couldn't get through their token generation and the few creatures they actually played. Which lead to us reenacting the arms race.
Uh, her Element of Harmony is Generosity. It's the complete opposite of black.
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Looking at color alignment in a vacuum, making Rarity white-blue makes sense. In a full set of pony cards, they would probably add black so the Mane Six aren't all white aligned, yeah. Similarly, I'd make Twilight Jeskai (white-blue-red).
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Really neat designs, and I love the art, especially Twilight. Even outside of the MLP context, the legendary crowns are really nice looking.
Rarity caring about rarity is great.
Even as a silver-bordered card with an ability you currently can't actually use, I'd prefer if Twilight only had you and your friends win the game.
I mean, all of the main characters are at least partly white, but Rarity in tends to struggle with being overly ambitious and fixated on status and beauty, which are definitely black vices. I'd personally put her down as WB but could see Esper.
(I've seen like two episodes.)
(I've seen like two episodes.)
I believe the official release is tomorrow? (They were sold on prerelease weekend, but should not have been available after that.) You may want to call the store and ask if they still have the collector's boosters and if so, if you can put a hold on your box so you can secure one of the packs. At my store all the collector's boosters were gone after the prerelease, though.
I love this idea and wish the art for normal Magic was anywhere near this good :oLooking at color alignment in a vacuum, making Rarity white-blue makes sense. In a full set of pony cards, they would probably add black so the Mane Six aren't all white aligned, yeah. Similarly, I'd make Twilight Jeskai (white-blue-red).
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Really neat designs, and I love the art, especially Twilight. Even outside of the MLP context, the legendary crowns are really nice looking.
Rarity caring about rarity is great.
Even as a silver-bordered card with an ability you currently can't actually use, I'd prefer if Twilight only had you and your friends win the game.
A silver-bordered card where every player wins is a great idea. Too bad there isn't a card for the remaining four, so you can never accomplish that goal even in silver-bordered commander.
The one thing almost everyone praised in Throne so far is the art and you'd rather cards look like this?
I think the art of Throne is normal for Magic, which to me means almost awful across the board with a few exceptions. But in the interest of fairness, I will list every piece of art in the entire set that I like!
The rest? Ranges from okay to horrible imo, which is pretty par for the course for the game. I'd really love a dramatic artstyle shift for the entire game, because I sincerely think Magic has the worst artstyle of any card game I've ever played.
my nipples always point towards magnetic northYeah. I agree. MTG definitely has the worst art of all TCGs.
Let's not pretend wotc doesn't do boob armor. Chandra and Elspeth can't escape that no matter the artist. For chandra in particular I think it's mandated in the the character guide book or whatever it's called
It's not like Magic doesn't have cards that deviate from the default realistic style of recent years. People praise Seb McKinnons's more distinctive style to the high heavens (whether or not they overdo it is another matter), and the alt-adventure arts were similarly well received. I got the alt-Embereth Shieldbreaker at prerelease and everyone who saw it thought it looked great.
But not all cards work with this style, and they lose their novelty if they become the default rather than the exception. People like consistency for the most part but the few that deviate are the main subjects for praise.
But not all cards work with this style, and they lose their novelty if they become the default rather than the exception. People like consistency for the most part but the few that deviate are the main subjects for praise.
I stopped playing MTG like 8 years ago but recently started again after joining an IRL DnD group. I'm looking to purchase a couple bundles/fatpacks at the local gameshop this month. Doing that as opposed to buying individual cards and decks because I don't have many cards. Are there any specific recent sets with crazy-ass cards I should single out? Or is any set good to buy a bundle of?
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Throne of Eldraine seems to be pretty good for value right now. That's the newest set.
WAR of the spark has a lot of good cards that see play in multiple formats and a guaranteed planeswalker in every pack. For building a casual collection, it's probably the best standard set to open overall.
Thanks! I'm thinking I'll pick one of each, then.
I love all of the alt art in this set tbhIt's not like Magic doesn't have cards that deviate from the default realistic style of recent years. People praise Seb McKinnons's more distinctive style to the high heavens (whether or not they overdo it is another matter), and the alt-adventure arts were similarly well received. I got the alt-Embereth Shieldbreaker at prerelease and everyone who saw it thought it looked great.
But not all cards work with this style, and they lose their novelty if they become the default rather than the exception. People like consistency for the most part but the few that deviate are the main subjects for praise.
It's not like Magic doesn't have cards that deviate from the default realistic style of recent years. People praise Seb McKinnons's more distinctive style to the high heavens (whether or not they overdo it is another matter), and the alt-adventure arts were similarly well received. I got the alt-Embereth Shieldbreaker at prerelease and everyone who saw it thought it looked great.
But not all cards work with this style, and they lose their novelty if they become the default rather than the exception. People like consistency for the most part but the few that deviate are the main subjects for praise.
Yeah, I got a foil alt-art Shieldbreaker and a promo Embercleave, and everyone seemed way more keen on the Shieldbreaker. (That may have something to do with Embercleave generally being a "Surprise! You lost the game!" card in Limited, though.)
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