WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
...lol. Yeah, nearly infinite card draw in black is "ok."
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...lol. Yeah, nearly infinite card draw in black is "ok."
divisionbyzorro
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That will be his home, where there is loads of extra life and mana to play with.
In Standard; I dunno - maybe? 2 life per card actually adds up pretty quickly.
The Technomancer
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I can see Erebros enabling some kind of UB combo thing
I know legacy/modern this card will be insane and abused. But in standard its gonna be ok.
Maybe cypt ghast or lili will make this card insane but thats magic xmas land.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Well, read the bones got much less playable. Meanwhile, between Erby and Thoughtseize, I'll have all the cards and they will have none.
All black needs now is a BSZ or Mutilate and we have a deck
Next thing you know, they'll reprint Damnation. Black'll have its field day.
And how do you mean it got less playable?
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I don't understand how the Magic card pre-sale market works when literally nobody can agree that any particular card is good, bad, terrible or incredible.
do not preorder anything unless
1: it's obvious. See: dragon.
2: you've playtested a ton.
Preorder good cards with tons of text on them asap: Jace 4 and DRS fall into this camp. People have a harder time processing them. I got my DRSes for 4 each.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I can't see running more than one card draw for life card, right? Thoughtseize is an auto 4 of, so you have to mitigate lifeloss.
Between the two 9/10 times, I'll take the indestructible, repeatable, also a hefty beater for 4 vice the Sign in Blood. I know there will exceptions, though I can't think of any where I'd take read over Erby.
And if they reprinted Damnation I'd about cream myself.
The Technomancer
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crimsonspider89
Banned
So we got two minotaur lords now?
Interesting.
Interesting.
The Technomancer
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MaRo says that this block will allow someone to build a Minotaur tribal deck. I'm not sure how good it will be, but apparently there are a lot of Minotaurs
divisionbyzorro
Member
Didn't Star City Games buy up all of the copies of Didgeridoo on the market a couple of months ago? I wonder how that will turn out for them.
crimsonspider89
Banned
And yeah Erebos looks nuts. With the new land and some solid two black CMCs drops, you could generate some nice card advantage.
Think plainswalkers go Nightmare lady then satyr then Elspeth.
Nightmare lady is good due to her mana cost and ability to steadily mill the opponent. Really good way to screw over the people running scryers.
Think plainswalkers go Nightmare lady then satyr then Elspeth.
Nightmare lady is good due to her mana cost and ability to steadily mill the opponent. Really good way to screw over the people running scryers.
no, that was QuietSpeculation
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
AKA: the unwashed asshole of the MtG community.
In what way? I mean, mill now has a dedicated PW threat I guess. I don't see how this is going to be super relevant, though I've been wrong before.
Also, I'm sick of walkers that mix black. And we already had a black blue one. How about a blue green one? How about a green white one? So stupid.
crimsonspider89
Banned
Because getting rid of 5 loyalty turn 3 is a whole lot harder than getting rid of 5 loyalty turn 4. And with scry, allows her to screw over there rigging and then sac her to cast one of there heavy powerful two to three drops.
crimsonspider89
Banned
Yeah, look at how hard it is to kill LotV once she got started. Once she got settled in, she could stay forever unless the user saced her themself.
Even if this thing has a one turn presence, being able to steal a powerful three or two drop creature, hell even four drop can be devastating.
Even if this thing has a one turn presence, being able to steal a powerful three or two drop creature, hell even four drop can be devastating.
I thought Tibalt was broken because I was stoned and thought I got to choose the card to discard. I preordered four.
Trust me, I'm not.
kirblar has been pretty on the money with predictions in this thread though
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Ahahaha this is hilarious
crimsonspider89
Banned
Also I think people are undervaluing Polukranos. His monstrous ability is kinda good and whole lot easier to cast than the others.
Also lets see how the minotaurs/other tribals shape up and then get some mutavaults. Get some solid cheap beasters to go along with reckoner and use the two lords to smash face and it may be a thing.
Also I think people may want to grab up that new legendary land for Modern. May actually give Modern Elves the material they need to appear. With the G/U glimpse of nature from RTR block.
Also lets see how the minotaurs/other tribals shape up and then get some mutavaults. Get some solid cheap beasters to go along with reckoner and use the two lords to smash face and it may be a thing.
Also I think people may want to grab up that new legendary land for Modern. May actually give Modern Elves the material they need to appear. With the G/U glimpse of nature from RTR block.
it does nothing, the cards horrible.
Edit: at best its a sideboard card, and Jace memory adept is still in standard.
I really hope Flamespeaker Adept is a cycle.
The -X is spectacularly good.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
If you mill a creature. If the player has zero presence on board and you have a blocker. If he has no burn. If you manage all that, and you milled a decent creature, then it's pretty good. For three mana and two turns you played domestication. Maybe.
Now, with all the scary, the first ability isn't horrific, but I mean...it's mill. Who is really worried about mill?
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the problem is the opponent can see what you exiled, so youve already been read. At best this card is a distraction.
I would only care if its jace memory adept.
Also I hope theres a mill strategy in theros block, like there was in ISD. Fucking ISD was so awesome. Only MMA made me feel I had fun in a limited environment from the recent released blocks.
crimsonspider89
Banned
Even then, going to pull resources off of dealing damage to the player and if don't then the aggro player will have to deal with one of its own big bodies.
Also 5 loyalty will be annoying to deal with.
It is meant to stall the aggro player, and deny the deck rigging control provides.
Also 5 loyalty will be annoying to deal with.
It is meant to stall the aggro player, and deny the deck rigging control provides.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Aggro will have zero problems having multiple threats on board. A bad player will worry about killing her. A good player will manage her into irrelevancy.
I'm 99% sure Ashiok is male. Magic art isn't known for its androgyny, people are usually clearly male or female. I'd just like to know what he is. A Returned?
Anyway, I'm not interested in calling the card SNAP trash/incredible but it certainly is an interesting design. I want to think it over. Erebos seems like a ton of mana/life to work as a card advantage engine, I can't say I'm super impressed. The new hate cycle seems needlessly narrow but they will probably see play. I'm glad the white one is a sorcery, it always felt like Celestial Purge was pushed being an instant.
Anyway, I'm not interested in calling the card SNAP trash/incredible but it certainly is an interesting design. I want to think it over. Erebos seems like a ton of mana/life to work as a card advantage engine, I can't say I'm super impressed. The new hate cycle seems needlessly narrow but they will probably see play. I'm glad the white one is a sorcery, it always felt like Celestial Purge was pushed being an instant.
Haly's reactions are fun to read 
Definitely a male, but for some reason the art reads female.I'm 99% sure Ashiok is male. Magic art isn't known for its androgyny, people are usually clearly male or female. I'd just like to know what he is. A Returned?
Anyway, I'm not interested in calling the card SNAP trash/incredible but it certainly is an interesting design. I want to think it over. Erebos seems like a ton of mana/life to work as a card advantage engine, I can't say I'm super impressed. The new hate cycle seems needlessly narrow but they will probably see play. I'm glad the white one is a sorcery, it always felt like Celestial Purge was pushed being an instant.
Haly's reactions are fun to read
lol that's my line too (for a personal playset.)
well, mine's a personal playset too, but 50% because "this is so cool" and 50% "this might be really expensive and it's fun enough to warrant trying even if it isn't"
the only card I spec bought was underworld cerberus, which I'm not about to recommend to the rest of gaf because the potential gain isn't high enough with dragon in the format
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I'mma buy a playset of Erby to drown my sorrows.
Strongly advise against.
I need to get me a set of Dreadbore with all these PWs that's going to be available.
Super friends time! Both Jaces, Ashiok, Elspeth, Supreme Verdict, Cyclonic Rifts, all backed up with counter and removal spells. Planning to go to turns every FNM lol. Now it's a matter of obtaining all those PWs...
Super friends time! Both Jaces, Ashiok, Elspeth, Supreme Verdict, Cyclonic Rifts, all backed up with counter and removal spells. Planning to go to turns every FNM lol. Now it's a matter of obtaining all those PWs...
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