Yeah I currently have Bedevil as my phone background. They do great stuff.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT| War of the Spark - Enter the Bo-Las (36 Planeswalkers)
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Yeah I currently have Bedevil as my phone background. They do great stuff.
Seb McKinnon art is cool but it does tend to look very similar to me (e.g. bowed heads) so I'm glad it's only on a few cards. Otherwise it would lose its unique appeal.
Reminder that Seb's Kickstarter still has 7 days, so you can get a cool playmate or print.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/813866177/seb-mckinnon-magic-the-gathering-playmats-limited-0
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/813866177/seb-mckinnon-magic-the-gathering-playmats-limited-0
Yeah... I might have to make room for The Elderspell in my planeswalker deck. Pump a planeswalker by sacrificing yours and other players' to it.
Exactly how The Elderspell works in the story. The flavor is spot on.
Exactly how The Elderspell works in the story. The flavor is spot on.
Huatli's Raptor; Ashiok's Skulker; Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God; God-Eternal Oketra; Sarkhan the Masterless; Spark Reaper; Jace, Arcane Strategist; Jace's Ruse; Jace's Projection; Guildpact Informant
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Huatli's Raptor
Creature - Dinosaur
Vigilance
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, proliferate.
God-Eternal Oketra
Double Strike
Whenever you cast a creature spell create a 4/4 zombie warrior token with vigilance
And the usual god thing that goes back three from the top
Sarkhan
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, each dragon you control deals 1 damage to that creature.
+1: All your planeswalkers become 4/4 flying dragons until end of turn
-3: Create a 4/4 dragon token with flying
PLANESWALKER DECK cards
That Nicol Bolas Dragon God art is pretty.
Is it just me or is Amass way overvalued when it comes to casting cost compared to proliferate? Proliferate just seems to be across the board cheaper to cast than amass and has way more utility.
Is it just me or is Amass way overvalued when it comes to casting cost compared to proliferate? Proliferate just seems to be across the board cheaper to cast than amass and has way more utility.
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MaRo's article explains the previous army mechanic, skirmish, and more
Skirmish sounds pretty wild. The idea is that it would create a small game board where you could "advance" your position every time you dealt combat damage to a player, cast another skirmish spell, or did a third thing. When you fully advanced, you got a reward. This would work like monarch, in that much of the rules text would be on this separate game piece instead of the skirmish spells. They also experimented with you getting different skirmish boards, like contraptions in Unstable.
After that, they went with the amass variant that created 1/1 tokens that had to attack and block together. The problem was how anthems and other group boosting effects became too strong, which led to the current form that only creates one Army. This was all done in vision design, so amass in its current form was in Set Design from the start.
Skirmish sounds pretty wild. The idea is that it would create a small game board where you could "advance" your position every time you dealt combat damage to a player, cast another skirmish spell, or did a third thing. When you fully advanced, you got a reward. This would work like monarch, in that much of the rules text would be on this separate game piece instead of the skirmish spells. They also experimented with you getting different skirmish boards, like contraptions in Unstable.
After that, they went with the amass variant that created 1/1 tokens that had to attack and block together. The problem was how anthems and other group boosting effects became too strong, which led to the current form that only creates one Army. This was all done in vision design, so amass in its current form was in Set Design from the start.
Seems like you guys are evaluating it based on having a deck full of Amass cards. That's not the way to use them.
Amass is at maximum value when it's creating a token. And many of the cards are underpriced when you use it for that.
To use Amass to full effect you need to only have 1 or 2 cards with it in your deck. When you do, it's great value.
I personally want it to work in my Modern Polymorph deck. I just don't think any of the cards it's attached to right now are very exciting.
Proliferate is a symbiotic mechanic. It doesn't do anything by itself and relies on having other cards, so its effect is highly variable. If you have no counters on the board then you're sad to draw a Proliferate card.
Something like Enter the God-Eternals, or Commence the Endgame, are just straight value all by themselves, especially if you don't have a token out when you cast them (but they're still not horrible if you do have a token).
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You play amass and proliferate in Limited. Amass guarantees there's a creature with +1/+1 counters in your deck.
Artist confirms that the guy getting ganked in The Elderspell isn't Ral. Or possibly, it is Ral but they changed their minds too late to change the art.
Artist confirms that the guy getting ganked in The Elderspell isn't Ral. Or possibly, it is Ral but they changed their minds too late to change the art.
This is a weird design for Uncommon- It's clearly a constructed sideboard card (and while it's a powerful effect, I'm not sure it's worth 3 mana and the risks of being a planeswalker). Seems like a huge limited trap as well unless there are more mill cards in the set at common
Definitely a staple sideboard card in most formats. Could be interesting in Modern/Legacy and turning all Fetches into dead cards.
Imagine T1 Dark Ritual then Ashiok. Good luck opponent.
Agreed. Proliferate is in Bant and Amass is is Grixis so the fact that proliferate interacts with Amass will be very important if you are in blue or crossing colors. You don't want to just run up loyalty counters when you proliferate because you can't guarantee youll even have one planeswalker on the board at a time. You need creatures with counters on them.
Endgame is pretty bad in limited, still. Six mana is a lot for an Inspiration, even if it creates a 4/4.
Pox lives!
Huatli, the Sun's Heart
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Huatli, Heart of the Sun
Creatures you control assign combat damage with their toughness instead of their power.
-3 you gain life equal to highest toughness among your creatures
So was there ever a reason given why Sarkhan went from Temur to straight red? Seems weird to me.
The Elderspell probably isn't that much of an issue for EDH superfriends. It's a dead card too often to be worth running unless you're doing it specifically to hose the guy you absolutely know is playing superfriends, and there's plenty of one-shot hosers for decks like that out there that don't stop people from playing the decks in question.
(Hell, the mass proliferation of boardwipes doesn't even stop people from running go-wide tokens decks, and boardwipes are something you know everyone at the table is likely to have, unlike the Elderspell.)
(Hell, the mass proliferation of boardwipes doesn't even stop people from running go-wide tokens decks, and boardwipes are something you know everyone at the table is likely to have, unlike the Elderspell.)
AFAIK, he was only ever Temur because for a while there Wizards had a policy of making extra planeswalkers (he was the sixth in the block, and each block was only was supposed to have five) three-color so they wouldn't break Standard. Same thing that happened to Tamiyo.
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Any given planeswalker card doesn't necessarily reflect the full range of colors they can represent.
Mechanically and flavorfully, planeswalker cards are just moments in time, not the complete depiction of everything they are and can do. Red is Sarkhan's most consistent color.
Sarkhan had story backing for becoming Temur. Sarkhan is mono red in this set because they needed walkers to fill slots and didn't do any 3 color ones besides Bolas.
Dunno, think it's likely to be excellent. Phyrexian Gargantua has been great whenever it's been printed. And this card, given that it's instant-speed, plays with amass/proliferate stuff, has upside to be bigger, doesn't lose life etc. is substantially better.
expensive card draw is usually shit. a lot of the time you just draw a land and an early game spell
One of those three will typically be a 2/2 because it's late in the game, another will often be a land you don't need because you're already at six.
If your deck is half 2/2s and half lands, it is not good, agreed.
As compared to Weight of Memory, it replaces "draw a card" with "pay one more mana, add 4/4 in P/T to the board" and tacks on instant speed. The two cards aren't similar in power level. With respect to opinions and the unknown limited meta, I think this type of body/effect combo is pretty much always great.
As compared to Weight of Memory, it replaces "draw a card" with "pay one more mana, add 4/4 in P/T to the board" and tacks on instant speed. The two cards aren't similar in power level. With respect to opinions and the unknown limited meta, I think this type of body/effect combo is pretty much always great.
Soul Diviner
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It's a rare, so if you're drafting enough to get a specific rare as first pick then you're insanely lucky or quite wealthy. :P
Any bet we get shock reprints like Dragon's Maze did? I'm thinking about buying a box this time around and that would be a huge plus
It could remove lore counters from Sagas in response to their trigger.
I dont draft more than once or twice a week, but generally I go infinite (or close) so I dont pay for many drafts.
RIP Domri
Well I guess this combos with that one land to explode all tokens.
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