divisionbyzorro
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EDIT: Not sure how I ended up with three Soul Ransoms. Fixed.
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And the spoiled Gruul Charm was confirmed. I really can't believe that second ability is on there.
Traditionally giving your opponent a choice isn't good, so Soul Ransom probably isn't going to get there. Maybe if you pair it with some sac outlets or something, so they at least can't get their guy back by using the ability. But then bounce and whatnot still gets you.
In Magic Christmasland, they activate the ability and discard, you Cloudshift or Restoration Angel the creature in response.
Traditionally giving your opponent a choice isn't good, so Soul Ransom probably isn't going to get there. Maybe if you pair it with some sac outlets or something, so they at least can't get their guy back by using the ability. But then bounce and whatnot still gets you.
In Magic Christmasland, they activate the ability and discard, you Cloudshift or Restoration Angel the creature in response.
You're up 3. Soul Ransom gets blown up.
Killin the creature in response to the Ransom being paid is actually hilarious.
divisionbyzorro
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You're up 1 card and they're down 3, so that puts you up 4.
They get the creature back.
divisionbyzorro
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You're right. I totally misread the card and thought that you sacrificed the creature, not the enchantment. Which makes it much, much less good.
Soul Ransom is terrible. Best case scenario it's a Dimir Control Magic, which, while strong, isn't pushed enough to merit that downside.
Still a fairly good chance it's fake as it hasn't been sourced by any of the spoiler sites yet.
It was the SCG podcast preview card- it's on their site now.
http://www.starcitygames.com/article/25510_In-Contention-110-A-Charming-Discussion.html (Danger, autoplaying music)
divisionbyzorro
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I love that the art is just a big hammer.
If you're playing it, you're playing it almost entirely for the third ability, which is likely not terribly relevant in this standard.
If you're playing it, you're playing it almost entirely for the third ability, which is likely not terribly relevant in this standard.
http://www.starcitygames.com/article/25510_In-Contention-110-A-Charming-Discussion.html (Danger, autoplaying music)
The Technomancer
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What a weird choice
First ability is red-only, third ability is green only. Red occasionally gets to snipe individual fliers.
narcosis219
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There are too many "ullll urrr" sounds in the name than I would like. Sounds like I'm throwing something up when I say it lol. Say it quick 5 times!
Oh right, I had it mixed up with what Bower Passage does.
Those are both red cards
Seems like it might be a reasonable reanimation target, especially in EDH.
I want my opponent to have three of those in their graveyard so bad.
Those are both red cards
For some reason I remembered falter being green, don't know why. Those effects are so terrible in anything other than limited anyway.
I guess it makes sense that Gruul gets the weakest charm since it should have the best creatures.
Wish we would see some of those though...
divisionbyzorro
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Think of all the singles you could buy with that money...
In ten years they'll release a MODO iPad version.
Boogalogist
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That Sepulchral Primordial...wow...i'm sooo playing it in my Nath EDH deck.
Gatekeeper
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Modo and touch screens do not get along well from personal experience.
divisionbyzorro
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https://www.massdrop.com/buy/return-to-ravnica-3pack
$6.49 for three packs of RTR, so a $78 box with free shipping. Thought you might be interested. Never used the site before, but I haven't seen packs that cheap in a loooong time.
$6.49 for three packs of RTR, so a $78 box with free shipping. Thought you might be interested. Never used the site before, but I haven't seen packs that cheap in a loooong time.
Just bought 12 3-packs. Hopefully enough people buy!
divisionbyzorro
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You know what card I really want to see banned in Modern in the next update?
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=49009
Ugh.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=49009
Ugh.
Is that deck strong? I rarely see it in the dailies I play on mtgo. Maybe that has to do with timing since the deck probably takes a lot of clicks to win.
Playing that deck on MTGO is quite possibly the least fun thing ever. To combo off can take ten minutes, which kind of makes winning impossible if your opponent is enough of a dick to make you play it out. (which I must admit, I sometimes am.)
I would be absolutely fine with a banning for time reasons.... But no, it's not strong when you consider the obscene amount of graveyard hate available.
Thats a damn good price. I dont need anything more of RTR really.. but extra packs are always nice. Also from the site some GC stuff
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/gatecrash-3pack
Though its not anywhere as close to a deal as the RTR stuff
It's incredibly easy to hate that deck out with a few sideboard cards, but like mentioned it's a nightmare on mtgo.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
It seems like I'll be buying a box and a playset of Aurelia's Fury from GTC. All the cool stuff is at rare and uncommon so far.
I'm beginning to see why people hate Mythic rarity. Aurelia's Fury is clearly an example of R&D just not even trying to balance a card and just slapping mythic on it to make it 'fair.'
Having not played for the entire middle of MTG, was this how it was for a long time?
I'm beginning to see why people hate Mythic rarity. Aurelia's Fury is clearly an example of R&D just not even trying to balance a card and just slapping mythic on it to make it 'fair.'
Having not played for the entire middle of MTG, was this how it was for a long time?
CorruptShadow
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Rosewater and the design and dev teams came up with a so called "New World Order"(their words) philosophy that keeps complex(cool) stuff out of common. Their stated reasoning was to lower the barrier to entry for new players. You can read about it from Rosewater himself here: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/172
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Yeah, I'm caught up on NWO. I'm not sure I agree with a lot of it, to be honest. I'm especially not a fan of the "TURN IT ALL UP TO 11" design philosophy. Aurelia's Fury is just....stupid. They're not even trying, you know?
But the flavor has gotten better with the years. The art has improved by an order of magnitudes. DotP was insanely smart on their part. They're doing a lot of things right.
Speaking of hexproof:
http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/tcg/products/gtc/h0ndjlxf87_en.jpg
(Hope that works)
http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/tcg/products/gtc/h0ndjlxf87_en.jpg
(Hope that works)
Not good enough of a fix. I hope that the existence of this card shows they realize how big the problem is, and that Magic 2014 might fix the issue.
What would be a better fix?
Seems a great sideboard card.
The better fix would be just getting rid of Hexproof. But unless they want to ban Invisible Stalker/Geist/et all, there is no better way to fix the problem until rotation. Assuming they keep it out of M14, when M13 and INN block rotate everything should get better.
It's just an incredibly lazy fix.
Not good enough of a fix. I hope that the existence of this card shows they realize how big the problem is, and that Magic 2014 might fix the issue.
I like the flavour/art.
It's good enough to kill off the invisible stalker decks while being narrow enough Geist of Saint Traft is still a strong card.
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