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Lol for some reason Banisher Priest are hard to come by and I need one more to complete a set so I'm aiming for that. I also run 1 Encroaching Wastes so I want both promos!
Will Retraction Helix allow you to tap a creature with Summoning Sickness? Say the creature doesn't have haste. The text says creature gains: tap. I would think it can still tap it even with Summoning Sickness.
divisionbyzorro
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You cannot. The creature must have haste or not be summoning sick. Sorry.
A sick creature cannot attack or use activated abilities that include the tap symbol while sick.
(Retraction Helix puts an activated ability with a tap symbol on target creature until end of turn.)
divisionbyzorro
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Ugh. An epic punt kept me from taking down the finals of the FNM draft tonight (although I have made the finals of every draft I've been to this month, so that's cool). I wasn't really on my mental A-game all night; it was one of those nights where I wasn't particularly motivated and my heart really wasn't in it. I only showed up to FNM because I'd already bought entry last week. I sort of auto-piloted the draft, ending up in my usual blue-red tempo deck that always seems to be open.
I'm so ready for the next set. Triple Theros has worn out its welcome so much...
I'm so ready for the next set. Triple Theros has worn out its welcome so much...
These 'premium common/uncommon' grades were made immediately after Theros came out. There's no need to keep following them. Many of the best cards in the format are completely absent from the chart. No Dauntless Onslaught, no Ordeals, no Gods Willing, no Gray Merchant. Also, as their picks are based on super early evaluations, there's crap like Centaur Battlemaster in there.
I wouldn't blame Limited Resources -- they likely updated their opinions on the format after it came out -- but whoever put that chart together is ignoring multiple months of Theros statistics and metagaming. Seriously misleading stuff, hilarious but not unexpected that it got upvoted on reddit.
Also, Weight of the Underworld is not premium removal in a format like Theros. Even the new choices are really fucking weird.
A sick creature cannot attack or use activated abilities that include the tap symbol while sick.
(Retraction Helix puts an activated ability with a tap symbol on target creature until end of turn.)
Thanks for the clarification. It won't always be a reliable bounce spell but looks solid enough to run in limited.
I agree with most of whats on the list though yeah, what you listed definitely should not have been omitted. How do you leave Nespian Asp out of the common green?
I think blue was the best color in Theros and it looks to continue to be the best with BNG included. As if they weren't evasive enough as it was, they get more fliers, another bounce spell, a tap spell, and an unblockable enchantment. I think I'm picking blue in this prerelease.
CornBurrito
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Yeah, sadly I am without a car. I don't get how my college campus is utterly devoid of people that play Magic.
It probably isn't.
Put up a few posters advertising an M:TG night (newcomers welcome, bring some extra decks for them to play with). I bet you'll get a good casual crowd to begin with.
Unless you are going to a tiny college in the middle of nowhere, I would find that impossible to believe. You just aren't looking hard enough! Walk around campus areas like the student center at random times, and you will find people playing.
Apparently found in a Pre-release package
Seems like a Commander/special set card
Found in a pre-release package at a Pre-release in the Philippines https://www.facebook.com/neutralgrounds/posts/10152170945467422
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Geez...the decks I could build with that thing. Great card.
Yup. M15 only finished final editing/typsetting within the last few weeks.
She is number 48/210... which means it's almost entirely multicolor (as they are after all colored cards on the sheet). These products are normally 4 60 card decks, which 210 doesn't lend itself to either.
So normally, you would think that maybe this is a booster set- but how the hell is this card not mythic then?
I'm so confused
So normally, you would think that maybe this is a booster set- but how the hell is this card not mythic then?
I'm so confused
CornBurrito
Member
Heh. Bringing extra decks is hard when you lack even a single deck!
I only really get into card games when I know someone who plays that lets me try using one of their extra decks! Or if they have a good online simulator, but apparently Magic The Gathering Online is ass since WoTC doesn't know how to internet.
Rosewater's said that they're running into a problem with good set symbols.
Yeah, I mean, set symbols peaked over 15 years ago with Urza's Saga.
All the rares from that set look so sexy with that gold symbol
No doubt. I've been thinking that for a long time now. New Phyrexia was the last one that I actually liked. Maybe they can just start printing the logo/typeface of the set instead.
Oh man! It's an ARG (probably)!
There's a number on the back of that card that is a phone number you call with a Redmond area code and it starts reading off letters and numbers:
http://imgur.com/a/siYrY#xIsSq8i
Too many for me to transcribe right now.
There's a number on the back of that card that is a phone number you call with a Redmond area code and it starts reading off letters and numbers:
http://imgur.com/a/siYrY#xIsSq8i
Too many for me to transcribe right now.
The ever diligent people on MTGS decoded it:
Cogwork Librarian (4)
Artifact Creature - Construct
Draft Cogwork Librarian face up. As you draft a card you may draft an additional card from that booster pack. If you do, put Cogwork Librarian into that booster pack.
3/3
Madness.
Cogwork Librarian (4)
Artifact Creature - Construct
Draft Cogwork Librarian face up. As you draft a card you may draft an additional card from that booster pack. If you do, put Cogwork Librarian into that booster pack.
3/3
Madness.
Keru_Shiri
Member
He's still out and about. Recently, he came by and did signings and such at a local convention here in Arkansas. He had a good time (I'm told he's coming back next year), but only came down on the condition that he'd be supplied with authentic Arkansan moonshine.
He also drew on and signed my playmat. If I remember when I get home, I'll upload a photo of it.
Looks like we're getting unglued 3, or something close to it.
HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE
Better. Multiplayer Cube.
Holy what?!
210/5/3= 14. Cube, baby.
Now that we can tell this is a draft focused thing it looks like the outer symbol is rotating around a table. So that makes sense.
Keru_Shiri
Member
I wonder if these are the first cards from Conspiracy?
1. What is that, it sounds really cool
2. It would make sense given that creature's abilities
Wizards trademarked that awhile back. Apparently in the decryption of that code the last word was "Conspiracy" after the P/T of the card. So that seems like a pretty good confirmation.
This is a pretty cool way to start the marketing for this product. Probably inspired by the "accidental" Rootborn Defenses from whenever that was. I assume there has to be more cards planted out there in prerelease packs, because some will certainly get not opened or not reported. I wonder if they are all the same card with the same phone number or if there are additional codes to discover.
I actually love that they plant stuff. I hope it's something they never stop.
CornBurrito
Member
Ok so apparently most of you do not play Duels of the Planeswalkers. Do any of you play Magic the Gathering Online?
or something similar
Hearthstone.
Keru_Shiri
Member
Pretty much what ultron87 said. Not much else is really known, but speculation is that Conspiracy will be the spring supplemental release (in similar vein of Archenemy or Planechase).
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
So what's everyone thinking for the Prerelease? I'm almost definitely going Blue, the promo is a sexy sexy card and I think it will complement whatever my THG partner picks
CornBurrito
Member
Hearthstone.
I googled that and it doesn't seem to be Magic the Gathering. My spoiler tag wasn't a reference to games like Magic, but possibly a reference to things perhaps maybe like Magic the Gathering Online that may or may not exist and may or may not be allowed to be mentioned in this thread.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh man, the rules modifications for this to be real are nuts. So it has an ability thats active when you aren't even playing the game?
platypotamus
Member
I am going blue as well, simply because I have played it the least in theros so far. If there's no blue left, I will fall back to green or black, simply because my last two drafts I ended up r/w.
I like to switch it up.
platypotamus
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blindrocket
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I play MTGO
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